1 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,516 - Stand, ho! - Who's there? 2 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,359 Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself. 3 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,835 - Long live the King! - Bernardo? 4 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:55,268 He. 5 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,196 For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart. 6 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,392 - Have you had quiet guard? - Not a mouse stirring. 7 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:07,468 If you meet the rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. 8 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:09,398 I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who goes there? 9 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,636 - Friends to this ground. - And liegemen to the Dane. 10 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,319 Give you good night. 11 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,112 Welcome, Horatio. 12 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:17,834 - Has this thing appeared again tonight? - I have seen nothing. 13 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,713 Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy and will not let belief take hold of him 14 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:22,797 touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us. 15 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,036 Tush, tush, 'twill not appear. 16 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,516 Last night of all, when yond same star that's westward from the pole... 17 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,075 Look where it comes again. 18 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,714 In the same figure, like the King that's dead. 19 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,037 Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. 20 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,993 What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, 21 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:44,952 together with that fair and warlike form 22 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:49,517 in which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometimes march? 23 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,631 - By heaven I charge thee, speak! - It is offended. 24 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,956 Stay! Speak, speak! I charge thee, speak! 25 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,515 'Tis gone, and will not answer. 26 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,759 How now, Horatio? Is not this something more than fantasy? 27 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,919 - Is it not like the King? - As thou art to thyself. 'Tis strange. 28 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,714 Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, 29 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:10,512 with martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. 30 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:12,392 In what particular thought to work, I know not: 31 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:13,828 but in the gross and scope of mine opinion, 32 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,157 this bodes some strange eruption to our state. 33 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,557 But, soft, behold! Lo, where it comes again! 34 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,400 I'll cross it, though it blast me. 35 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,916 Stay, illusion. 36 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,715 If thou hast any sound or use of voice, speak to me. 37 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:36,754 If thou art privy to thy country's fate, which happily foreknowing may avoid, 38 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,158 O, speak! Speak of it. Stay, and speak. 39 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,510 - Stop it, Marcellus! - Shall I strike at it with my partisan? 40 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:44,948 'Tis gone. 41 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,958 We do it wrong, being so majestical, to offer it the show of violence; 42 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,958 for it is, as the air, invulnerable. 43 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:52,479 It was about to speak, when the cock crew. 44 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,752 And then it started like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons. 45 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,996 It faded on the crowing of the cock. 46 00:02:58,200 --> 00:02:59,758 Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes 47 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:01,951 wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 48 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,469 the bird of dawning singeth all night long; 49 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,636 and then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad. 50 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,310 So have I heard, and do in part believe it. 51 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,269 But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, 52 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,029 walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. 53 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,078 Break we our watch up; and, by my advice, 54 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,272 Iet us impart what we have seen tonight unto young Hamlet; 55 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:33,112 for upon my life, this spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. 56 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:41,232 Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green, 57 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,670 yet so far hath discretion fought with nature 58 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,996 that we with wisest sorrow think on him, 59 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,714 together with remembrance of ourselves. 60 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,956 Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, 61 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,913 th' imperial jointress to this warlike state, 62 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,350 have we, as 'twere, with a defeated joy, 63 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:05,031 with mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, taken to wife. 64 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,589 Now follows that you know: young Fortinbras, 65 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,030 holding a weak supposal of our worth, 66 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:16,878 he hath not failed to pester us with message 67 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:21,631 importing the surrender of those lands lost by his father with all bands of law, 68 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:23,671 to our most valiant brother. 69 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,270 We have here writ to Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras, 70 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,516 who, impotent and bed-rid... 71 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,792 ...scarcely hears of this his nephew's purpose, 72 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,468 to suppress his further gait herein. 73 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,356 So much for him! 74 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,155 So, Laertes, what's the news with you? 75 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:47,239 My dread lord, your leave and favour to return to France; 76 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,113 from whence though willingly I came to Denmark 77 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,518 to show my duty in your coronation, yet now, I must confess, that duty done, 78 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,554 my thoughts and wishes bend again towards France. 79 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,876 Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius? 80 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,517 He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave by laboursome petition. 81 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,154 I do beseech you, give him leave to go. 82 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,794 Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, 83 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,639 and thy best graces spend it at thy will! 84 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,035 And now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son, 85 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,879 how is it that the clouds still hang on you? 86 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,674 Not so, my lord; I am too much in the sun. 87 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,553 Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, 88 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,433 and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. 89 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:37,519 Do not for ever with they vailed lids seek for thy noble father in the dust. 90 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,429 Thou know'st 'tis common - all that lives must die, 91 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:43,631 passing through nature to eternity. 92 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:45,239 Aye, madam, it is common. 93 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,476 If it be, why seems it so particular with thee? 94 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:53,277 Seems? Nay, madam, it is; I know not seems. 95 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,550 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, 96 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,069 nor customary suits of solemn black, 97 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:00,874 nor the dejected haviour of the visage, 98 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:06,791 together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, that can denote me truly. 99 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,036 These, indeed, seem; 100 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,118 for they are actions that a man might play. 101 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,630 But I have that within which passes show; 102 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:17,956 these but the trappings and the suits of woe. 103 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:21,917 It is sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, 104 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,634 to give these mourning duties to you father, 105 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:26,398 but you must know your father lost a father, 106 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,637 that father lost lost his. 107 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:34,391 But to persever in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness; 108 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,830 'tis unmanly grief. 109 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,708 We pray you throw to earth this unprevailing woe 110 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:42,956 and think of us as of a father; 111 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,756 for let the world take note you are the most immediate to our throne. 112 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,157 For your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg, 113 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:55,433 it is most retrograde to our desire; and we beseech you bend you to remain here, 114 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,358 in the cheer and comfort of our eye, 115 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,518 our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son. 116 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,234 Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet: 117 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,752 I pray thee stay with us; go not to Wittenberg. 118 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,793 I shall in all my best obey you, madam. 119 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,389 Why, 'tis a fair and loving reply. 120 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,989 Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come; 121 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,112 this gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet sits smiling in my heart; 122 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,232 in grace whereof, no jocund health that Denmark drinks today, 123 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,112 but the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, 124 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,470 and the King's rouse the heavens shall bruit again, 125 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,148 re-speaking earthly thunder. 126 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,875 O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt, 127 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:45,870 thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! 128 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,632 Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! 129 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,592 O God! O God! 130 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,349 How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, 131 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,791 seem to me all the uses of this world! 132 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,071 Fie on't; Ah, fie! 133 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,032 'Tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed; 134 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:19,028 things rank and gross in nature possess it merely. 135 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,595 That it should come to this! 136 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:29,877 But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. 137 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:34,517 So excellent a king that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; 138 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,598 so loving to my mother, that he might not beteem the winds of heaven 139 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,997 visit her face too roughly. 140 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,317 Heaven and earth! Must I remember? 141 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,598 Why, she should hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown 142 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,951 by what it fed on; and yet, within a month... 143 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,596 Let me not think on't. 144 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,949 Frailty, thy name is woman. 145 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,594 A little month, or ere those shoes were old 146 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,711 with which she followed my poor father's body, 147 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,959 Iike Niobe, all tears, 148 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:16,553 why she, even she 149 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:21,436 - O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourn'd longer - 150 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,234 married with my uncle, my father's brother; 151 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,115 but no more like my father than I to Hercules. 152 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:31,676 Within a month, 153 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,633 ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears 154 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,197 had left the flushing in her galled eyes, she married. 155 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:44,997 O, most wicked speed to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets. 156 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:55,272 It is not, nor it cannot come to good. 157 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,475 But break, my heart, 158 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,514 for I must hold my tongue. 159 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,399 Hail to your lordship. 160 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,875 I am glad to see you well. 161 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,118 Horatio, or I do forget myself. 162 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:21,912 The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever. 163 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,236 Sir, my good friend, I'll change that name with you. 164 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:25,873 And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? 165 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:27,308 Marcellus. I am very glad to see you. 166 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,431 Good even, sir. But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg? 167 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,633 - A truant disposition, good my lord. - I would not hear your enemy say so. 168 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:38,038 But what is your affair in Elsinore? We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. 169 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:39,673 My lord, I came to see your father's funeral. 170 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,314 I prithee, do not mock me, fellow-student; 171 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,829 I think it was to see my mother's wedding. 172 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:46,598 Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon. 173 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,349 Thrift, thrift, Horatio! 174 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:55,031 The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 175 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,518 Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! 176 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,591 My father, methinks I see my father. 177 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,392 Where, my lord? 178 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,353 In my mind's eye, Horatio. 179 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:12,994 I saw him once; he was a goodly king. 180 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,510 He was a man, take him for all in all, 181 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,756 I shall not look upon his like again. 182 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:22,873 My lord, I think I saw him yesternight. 183 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,911 Saw who? 184 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,429 My lord, the King your father. 185 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:33,639 For God's love, let me hear. 186 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,310 Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, 187 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:39,795 in the dead vast and middle of the night, been thus encountered. 188 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,072 A figure like your father, armed at point exactly, cap-à-pie, 189 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,191 appears before them, and with solemn march 190 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,358 goes slow and stately by them. 191 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:49,788 But where was this? 192 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,228 My lord, upon the platform where we watch. 193 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,319 - Did you not speak to it? - My lord, I did, but answer made it none. 194 00:11:58,240 --> 00:11:59,514 'Tis very strange. 195 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,029 As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true; 196 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,437 and we did think it writ down in our duty to let you know of it. 197 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,029 Indeed, sirs. But this troubles me. Hold you the watch tonight? 198 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:09,468 - We do, my lord. - Arm'd, say you? 199 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:10,908 From head to foot. 200 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:15,033 - Then saw you not his face? - O yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up. 201 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,037 - I would I had been there. - It would have much amaz'd you. 202 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,196 Very like, very like. Stay'd it long? 203 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,356 While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. 204 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:22,788 - Longer. - Not when I saw't. 205 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,230 - His beard was grizzl'd, no? - It was as I have seen it in his life. 206 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,795 A sable silver'd. 207 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,676 I will watch tonight. Perchance 'twill walk again. 208 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,871 I warrant it will. 209 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,595 My necessaries are embark'd. 210 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,996 And, sister, as the winds give benefit and convoy is assistant, 211 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,156 do not sleep but let me hear from you. 212 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,191 Do you doubt that? 213 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,634 For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour, 214 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,638 hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, 215 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:03,355 a violet in the youth of primy nature. No more! 216 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:07,109 - No more but so? - Think it no more; 217 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,118 he may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself; 218 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,438 for on his choice depends the safety and health of this whole state. 219 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,596 Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, 220 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,076 if with too credent ear you list his songs, 221 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,555 or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open 222 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,955 to his unmast'red importunity. 223 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:28,470 Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister. 224 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:32,116 The chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon. 225 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:37,110 I shall the effect of this good lesson take as watchman to my heart. 226 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:41,154 But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 227 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,590 show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, 228 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,950 whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, 229 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,549 himself the primrose path of dalliance treads 230 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:50,352 and recks not his own rede. 231 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:52,710 O, fear me not. 232 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,357 Yet here, Laertes! Aboard, aboard, for shame! 233 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:01,597 The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, and you are stayed for. 234 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,439 There, my blessing with thee! 235 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,712 And these few precepts in thy memory. 236 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:12,232 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 237 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,113 Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 238 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,629 grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; 239 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:19,831 but do not dull thy palm with entertainment 240 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,713 of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. 241 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,798 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 242 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,515 but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; 243 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,393 for the apparel oft proclaims the man. 244 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,672 Neither a borrower nor a lender be; 245 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,429 for loan oft loses both itself and friend. 246 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:44,156 This above all - to thine own self be true, 247 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,635 and it shall follow, as the night the day, 248 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,831 thou canst not then be false to any man. 249 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,508 Most humbly do I take my leave my lord. 250 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,316 The time invites you; go, your servants tend. 251 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:57,988 Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well what I have said to you. 252 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,510 'Tis in my memory lock'd, and you yourself shall keep the key of it. 253 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:02,948 Farewell. 254 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,991 What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you? 255 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,350 So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet. 256 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,870 Marry, well bethought. What is between you? Give me up the truth. 257 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,833 He hath, my lord, importuned me with love in honourable fashion. 258 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,996 Ay, fashion you may call it. 259 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:20,553 And hath given countenance to his speech 260 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:22,318 with almost all the holy vows of heaven. 261 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,910 Ay, springes to catch woodcocks! 262 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:30,833 From this time be something scanter of your maiden presence. 263 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,191 I would not in plain terms have you so slander any moment's leisure 264 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,949 as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. 265 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:46,677 The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. 266 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,314 It is a nipping and an eager air. 267 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,193 - What hour now? - I think it lacks of twelve. 268 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,277 - No, it is struck. - lndeed? I heard it not. 269 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:01,678 It then draws near the season wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. 270 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:20,952 What does this mean, my lord? 271 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,630 The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse, 272 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,355 keeps wassail, and, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, 273 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,552 the kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge. 274 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,557 - Is it a custom? - Ay, marry, is't; 275 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,751 but to my mind, though I am native here and to the manor born, 276 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,589 it is a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance. 277 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,071 Angels and ministers of grace defend us! 278 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,796 Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, 279 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,228 thou com'st in such a questionable shape 280 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,351 that I will speak to thee. 281 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:08,951 I'll call thee Hamlet. 282 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,679 King, 283 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,551 Father, 284 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,230 royal Dane. 285 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,268 What may this mean, dead corse, 286 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:29,031 that thou again in complete steel revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, 287 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:31,231 making night hideous and we fools of nature 288 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,318 so horridly to shake our dispositions 289 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,159 with thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? 290 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,639 Say, why is this? 291 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:43,319 Wherefore? 292 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:46,439 What should we do? 293 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,153 It beckons you to go away with it, 294 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,510 as if it some impartment did desire to you alone. 295 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:51,994 - But do not go with it. - No, by no means. 296 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,236 - It will not speak; then I will follow it. - Do not, my lord. 297 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,910 Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee. 298 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:01,112 And for my soul, what can it do to that, being a thing immortal as itself? 299 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:02,753 It waves me still. I'll follow it. 300 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:07,476 - You shall not go, my lord. - Hold off your hands. My fate cries out. 301 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,719 I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee. 302 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,512 He waxes desperate with imagination. 303 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:15,039 Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 304 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,754 - Heaven will direct it. - Nay, let's follow him. 305 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:26,033 Whither wilt thou lead me? Speak. I'll go no further. 306 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,470 Mark me. 307 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,989 Speak; I am bound to hear. 308 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,873 So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear, 309 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,310 if thou didst ever thy dear father love. 310 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:37,794 O God! 311 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,833 Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. 312 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:45,511 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, a serpent stung me, 313 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:46,948 but know, thou noble youth, 314 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,948 the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown. 315 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:52,639 O my prophetic soul! My uncle! 316 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,037 Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, 317 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,549 with witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts 318 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,070 - O wicked wit and gifts that have the power so to seduce! - 319 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:07,877 won to his shameful lust the will of my most seeming virtuous queen. 320 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:10,912 Brief let me be. 321 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:15,113 Sleeping within my orchard, my custom always of the afternoon, 322 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,914 upon my secure hour thy uncle stole 323 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:20,236 with juice of cursed hebona in a vial, 324 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:25,230 and in the porches of my ears did pour the leperous distilment. 325 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,796 O, horrible! O, horrible! Most horrible! 326 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,276 Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand 327 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,996 of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched. 328 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,919 If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; 329 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:45,956 Iet not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest. 330 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:51,990 Adieu. 331 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:57,391 Remember me. 332 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:08,271 O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? 333 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,597 And shall I couple hell? 334 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,518 O, fie! 335 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,349 Hold, hold, my heart; 336 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,074 and you, my sinews, grow not instant old, 337 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,635 but bear me stiffly up. 338 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:25,159 Remember thee! 339 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:29,831 Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. 340 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,430 Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory 341 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,756 I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, 342 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,633 all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, 343 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,116 that youth and observation copied there, and thy commandment all alone shall live 344 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,232 within the book and volume of my brain, unmixed with baser matter. 345 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,271 Yes, by heaven! 346 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,631 O most pernicious woman! 347 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:56,995 O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! 348 00:20:58,280 --> 00:20:59,918 Meet it is that I set it down 349 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:04,033 that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; 350 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,276 at least I am sure it may be so in Denmark. 351 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,074 So, uncle, there you are. 352 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,156 Now to my word: 353 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:19,390 it is "Adieu, adieu! Remember me." 354 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,511 My lord! 355 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,473 - My lord! - Lord Hamlet! 356 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,035 - Ho, ho! - My lord! 357 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,676 Ho, ho, boy! Come, bird, come. 358 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,274 - How is't my noble lord? - What news, my lord? 359 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,311 - O, wonderful! - Good my lord, tell it. 360 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,671 - No, you will reveal it. - Not l, my lord. 361 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,519 There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark 362 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,392 but he's an arrant knave. 363 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,716 There needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. 364 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,433 Why, right; you are in the right; 365 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,471 and so, without more circumstance at all, 366 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,193 I hold it fit that we shake hands and part. 367 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,072 You, as your business and desire shall point you, 368 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,475 for every man hath business and desire, such as it is; 369 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,432 and for my own poor part, I will go pray. 370 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:01,914 These are but wild and whirling words, my lord. 371 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:04,475 I am sorry they offend you, heartily; yes, faith, heartily. 372 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:05,954 There's no offence, my lord. 373 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,879 Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio. 374 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,071 And much offence too. 375 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:16,028 Touching this vision here, it is an honest ghost, that let me tell you. 376 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,915 For your desire to know what is between us, 377 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:24,192 o'ermaster't as you may. 378 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,356 But now, good friends, 379 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:31,554 as you are friends, soldiers, and scholars, give me one poor request. 380 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,751 What is't, my lord? We will. 381 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,757 Never make known what you have seen tonight. 382 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,552 - We will not. - Nay, but swear't. 383 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,433 - But this is wondrous strange. - Therefore as a stranger, give it welcome. 384 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:41,914 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 385 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:45,078 than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 386 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,397 Here, as before, 387 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,639 never, so help you mercy, how strange or odd some'er I bear myself 388 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,115 - as I hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on - 389 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,118 that you, at such times seeing me, never shall, 390 00:22:58,320 --> 00:22:59,833 with arms encumb'red thus, or with this headshake, 391 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,598 or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, 392 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,597 as "Well, well, we know" or "We could, an if we would" 393 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,995 or "lf we list to speak" or "There be, an if they might" 394 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,749 or such ambiguous giving out, denote that you know aught of me: 395 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,520 this do swear. 396 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,518 So grace and mercy at your most need help you. 397 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:22,637 - Swear! - Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! 398 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:36,191 So, gentlemen, with all my love I do commend me to you; 399 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,391 and what so poor a man as Hamlet is 400 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,114 may do t'express his love and friending to you, 401 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,629 God willing, shall not lack. 402 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,155 Come, let us go together. 403 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,870 The time is out of joint. 404 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:00,554 O cursed spite. 405 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:06,749 That ever I was born to set it right! 406 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,956 Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo. 407 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,469 I will, my lord. 408 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,116 You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo, 409 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,834 before you visit him, to inquire of his behaviour. 410 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,712 My lord, I did intend it. 411 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,512 Marry, well said; very well said. 412 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,599 Look you, sir, enquire me first what Danskers are in Paris; 413 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,110 that they do know my son, come you more nearer. 414 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,231 Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him; 415 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,671 as: "l know the gentleman; I saw him yesterday, or t'other day, 416 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,110 "or then, or then; with such and such; 417 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,357 "and, as you say, there was a gaming; 418 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,074 "there o'ertook in's rouse; there falling out at tennis; 419 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,750 "there perchance I saw him enter such a house of sale" 420 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,875 videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. 421 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,594 See you now. 422 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,950 - But my good lord... - Wherefore should you do this? 423 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:09,473 - Ay, my lord, I would know that. - By indirections find directions out. 424 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,240 - You have me, have you not? - My lord, I have. 425 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,271 God be wi' ye; fare ye well. 426 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,950 - Good my lord. - Observe his inclinations in yourself. 427 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,720 - I will, my lord. - And let him ply his music. 428 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,229 Good, my lord. 429 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:25,957 O my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted. 430 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:27,388 With what, i' th' name of God? 431 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,115 My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet with his doublet all unbrac'd, 432 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,198 no hat upon his head, as if he had been loosed out of hell 433 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,072 to speak of horrors, he comes before me. 434 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,350 - Mad for thy love? - My lord, I do not know. 435 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,109 But truly I do fear it. He took me by the wrist and held me hard. 436 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,231 Then goes he to the length of all his arm, 437 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,795 and, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, 438 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,833 he falls to such perusal of my face as a would draw it. 439 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,632 Long stay'd he so. 440 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,070 At last, a little shaking of mine arm, 441 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,999 and thrice his head thus waving up and down, 442 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,112 he raised a sigh so piteous and profound 443 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,392 as it did seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being. 444 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,431 I will go seek the King. 445 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:06,959 This is the very ecstasy of love. 446 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,628 What, have you given him any hard words of late? 447 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,831 No, my good lord; but, as you did command 448 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,759 I did repel his letters, and denied his access to me. 449 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:19,158 That hath made him mad. Come, go we to the King. 450 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,269 Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern! 451 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,438 Something have you heard of Hamlet's transformation. 452 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,118 I beseech you both that, being of so young days brought up with him, 453 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,311 and sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour, 454 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,478 that you vouchsafe your rest here in our court some little time; 455 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,955 so by your companies to draw him on to pleasures, 456 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,355 and to gather so much as from occasion you may glean, 457 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,755 whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus 458 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,599 that, open'd, lies within our remedy. 459 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,553 Good gentlemen, he hath much talked of you; 460 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,991 and sure I am two men there is not living to whom he more adheres. 461 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,873 Both your Majesties might, by the sovereign power you have of us, 462 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,355 put your dread pleasures more into command than to entreaty. 463 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,199 But we both obey, and here give up ourselves in the full bent 464 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,755 to lay our service freely at your feet, to be commanded. 465 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,235 Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern. 466 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,512 Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz. 467 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,269 And I beseech you instantly to visit my too much changed son. 468 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,313 Go, some of you, and bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is. 469 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,752 Th' ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, are joyfully returned. 470 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,916 Thou still hast been the father of good news. 471 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:29,872 Have l, my lord? 472 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,511 I assure my good liege, and I do think, 473 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,109 or else this brain of mine hunts not the trail of policy 474 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:44,919 so sure as it was wont to do, that I have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy. 475 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,236 O, speak of that; that do I long to hear. 476 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:51,592 I doubt it is no other but the main; his father's death 477 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,394 and our o'erhasty marriage. 478 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,590 My liege, and madam, 479 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,349 to expostulate what majesty should be, what duty is, 480 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,154 why day is day, night is night, and time is time, 481 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:12,033 were but to waste night, day and time. 482 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,152 Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit 483 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,954 and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, 484 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,230 I will be brief. 485 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,876 Your noble son is mad. 486 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:29,359 Mad call I it, for to define true madness, what is't but to be nothing else but mad? 487 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,916 - But let that go. - More matter with less art. 488 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,793 Madam, I swear I use no art at all. 489 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:41,358 That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity; and pity 'tis 'tis true. 490 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,870 A foolish figure! Farewell it, for I will use no art. 491 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,437 I have a daughter, have while she is mine, 492 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:55,317 who in her duty and obedience, mark, hath given me this. 493 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,954 "Doubt that the stars are fire; 494 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,435 "Doubt that the sun doth move: 495 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:09,079 "Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. 496 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,635 "Thine evermore, most dear lady, 497 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:16,755 "whilst this machine is to him, 498 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,712 "Hamlet." 499 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,070 How hath she received his love? 500 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,352 - What do you think of me? - As of a man faithful and honourable. 501 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,279 I would fain prove so. 502 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,359 No, I went round to work, 503 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,516 and my young mistress thus I did bespeak: 504 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,234 "Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star; this must not be"; 505 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,069 and then I prescripts gave her that she should lock herself from his resort, 506 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,555 admit no messengers, receive no tokens. 507 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,194 This done, she took the fruits of my advice: 508 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,709 and he, repelled, a short tale to make, 509 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,639 fell into a sadness, then into a fast, 510 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,512 thence to a watch, thence to a weakness, 511 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,188 then into a lightness, and by this declension, 512 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,791 into the madness wherein now he raves and all we mourn for. 513 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,675 - Do you think this? - It may be very like. 514 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,350 Take this from this, if this be otherwise. 515 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,189 If circumstances lead me, I will find where truth is hid, 516 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,119 though it be hid indeed within the centre. 517 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,719 How may we try it further? 518 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,310 You know sometimes he walks for hours together here in the lobby. 519 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:21,748 So he does indeed. 520 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:26,431 At such a time, I'll loose my daughter to him. 521 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,473 Read on this book. 522 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:34,470 That show of such an exercise may colour your loneliness. 523 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,996 To be, 524 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,200 or not to be - 525 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,636 that is the question; 526 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,516 whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer 527 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:04,077 the slings and arrows of outrageous Fortune, 528 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:10,549 or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? 529 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,359 To die, to sleep - 530 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:20,350 no more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache, 531 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,872 and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. 532 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,355 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd. 533 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,518 To die, to sleep; 534 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:37,320 to sleep, perchance to dream. 535 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,637 Ay, there's the rub; 536 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,512 for in that sleep of death what dreams may come, 537 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,872 when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. 538 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,753 There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life; 539 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,876 for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 540 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,152 th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, 541 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:08,434 the pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, the insolence of office, 542 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,438 and the spurns that patient merit of th' unworthy takes 543 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:16,794 when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? 544 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,591 Who would fardels bear, 545 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,679 to grunt and sweat under a weary life, 546 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,475 but that the dread of something after death, 547 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,673 the undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns, 548 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,429 puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have 549 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,189 than fly to others that we know not of? 550 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:52,233 Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; 551 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,196 and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er 552 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,153 with the pale cast of thought, 553 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,716 and enterprises of great pith and moment, 554 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:09,314 with this regard, their currents turn awry and lose the name of action. 555 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,032 Soft you now. 556 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:16,832 The fair Ophelia. 557 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:24,675 Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered. 558 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,872 Good my lord, how does your honour this many a day? 559 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,073 I humbly thank you; well, well, well. 560 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:37,479 My lord, I have remembrances of yours that I have longed long to re-deliver. 561 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,671 I pray you now receive them. 562 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,711 No, not l; I never gave you aught. 563 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,070 My honour'd lord, you know right well you did; 564 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,669 and with them words of so sweet breath compos'd 565 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,030 as made these things more rich; 566 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:53,756 their perfume lost, take these again; for to the noble mind, 567 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,997 rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 568 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,997 There, my lord. 569 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:00,474 - Ha, are you honest? - My lord? 570 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,113 - Are you fair? - What means your lordship? 571 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,673 That if you be honest and fair, 572 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,633 your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty. 573 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,990 Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty? 574 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,431 Ay, truly; for the power of beauty 575 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,473 will sooner transform honesty from what it is into a bawd 576 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,717 than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. 577 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,549 This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. 578 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,113 I did love you once. 579 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,072 Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. 580 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:27,759 You should not have believ'd me; 581 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:32,158 for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. 582 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:33,839 I loved you not. 583 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,399 I was the more deceived. 584 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,316 Get thee to a nunnery. 585 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,195 Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? 586 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,836 I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things 587 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,918 that it were better my mother had not borne me: 588 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:06,636 I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious. 589 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:13,035 What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? 590 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:15,515 Believe none of us. 591 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,877 Go thy ways to a nunnery. 592 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:36,596 - Where's your father? - At home, my lord. 593 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,111 Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool 594 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,437 nowhere but in's own house. Farewell. 595 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,438 If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: 596 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,710 be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, 597 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,911 thou shalt not escape calumny. 598 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,829 Get thee to a nunnery. Farewell. Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; 599 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,554 for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. 600 00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,990 To a nunnery, go; and quickly too. Farewell. 601 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,872 Heavenly powers, restore him! 602 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:03,593 I have heard of your paintings well enough. 603 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,678 God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. 604 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,677 You jig and amble, and you lisp, 605 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,792 you nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. 606 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,231 Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad. 607 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,113 I say we will have no more marriage; 608 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,437 those that are married already all but one shall live; 609 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,792 the rest shall keep as they are. 610 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,436 To a nunnery, go. 611 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:37,072 O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown. 612 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:42,479 The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; 613 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,990 th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, 614 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,636 the glass of fashion and the mould of form, 615 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:56,029 th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down! 616 00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:01,951 And l, of ladies most deject and wretched, 617 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,799 that sucked the honey of his music vows, 618 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,037 now see that noble and most sovereign reason, 619 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:14,190 Iike sweet bells jangled out of time and harsh. 620 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:20,680 Love! His affections do not that way tend. 621 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:25,749 Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little, was not like madness. 622 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,396 There's something in his soul o'er which his melancholy sits on brood; 623 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,717 and I do doubt the hatch and disclose will be some danger; 624 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,708 the which for to prevent, I have in quick determination thus set it down, 625 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,639 he shall with speed to England for the demand of our neglected tribute. 626 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,115 - What think you on't? - It shall do well. 627 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,153 And yet do I believe the origin and commencement of his grief 628 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,716 sprang from neglected love. 629 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:56,513 How now, Ophelia! You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said; 630 00:37:56,720 --> 00:37:58,870 we heard it all. 631 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,833 My lord, do as you please. 632 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:07,672 I will myself go try him. Let me alone to sound the depth of him. 633 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,519 'Tis well. 634 00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:14,190 Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. 635 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,436 How does my good lord Hamlet? 636 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,835 Well, God-a-mercy. 637 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:25,397 - Do you know me, my lord? - Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. 638 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,068 - Not l, my lord. - Then I would you were so honest a man. 639 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:29,838 - Honest, my lord! - Ay, sir; 640 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,952 to be honest as this world goes, is to be one man pick'd out of ten thousand. 641 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,037 That's very true, my lord. 642 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:37,037 - Have you a daughter? - I have, my lord. 643 00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:38,514 Let her not walk i' th' sun. 644 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:42,952 Conception is a blessing, and as your daughter may conceive, friend, look to't. 645 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,357 How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter. 646 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,438 A is far gone, far gone. 647 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,679 And yet in my youth I suffer'd much extremity for love. Very near this. 648 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,836 I'll speak to him again. 649 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,838 - What do you read, my lord? - Words, words, words. 650 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,951 - What is the matter, my lord? - Between who? 651 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,994 - The matter that you read, my lord. - Slanders, sir. 652 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,237 For the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards; 653 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:12,479 that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes purging thick amber and plum tree gum, 654 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,752 that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams; 655 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,032 all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, 656 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:22,073 yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; 657 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,510 for you yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, 658 00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:27,439 if, like a crab, you could go backward. 659 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,269 Though this be madness, yet there's method in't. 660 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,557 My noble lord, I take my leave of you. 661 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:42,551 You cannot take from me anything that I will not more willingly part withal 662 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:48,596 - except my life, except my life, except my life. 663 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:54,715 - Fare you well, my lord. - These tedious old fools! 664 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,037 You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is. 665 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:01,471 - My honour'd lord! - My most dear lord! 666 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,468 My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenst...Rosencrantz? 667 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,399 - Good lads, how do you both? - As the indifferent children of the earth. 668 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,670 Happy in that we are not over happy. 669 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,836 On Fortune's cap we are not the very button. 670 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,112 - Nor the soles of her shoe? - Neither, my lord. 671 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,880 Then you live about her waist, or the middle of her favours? 672 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:20,593 Faith, her privates we. 673 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,839 In the secret parts of Fortune? O, most true, she is a strumpet. What news? 674 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,553 None, my lord, but the world's grown honest. 675 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,558 Then is doomsday near. But your news is not true. 676 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,749 Let me question more in particular. 677 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:34,473 What have you, my dear friends, deserved, 678 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,830 at the hands of Fortune that she sends you to prison hither? 679 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:38,951 - Prison, my lord? - Denmark's a prison. 680 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,913 Why, then your ambition makes it one; 'tis too narrow for your mind. 681 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,955 O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, 682 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,274 were it not that I have bad dreams. 683 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,233 Which dreams indeed are ambition. 684 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,271 But in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore? 685 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,550 To visit you, my lord; no other occasion. 686 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,797 Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; 687 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,629 but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. 688 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,798 Were you not sent for? 689 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,916 Now, come, come, be even and direct with me, 690 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,678 whether you were sent for or no? 691 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,075 My lord, we were sent for. 692 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,396 I will tell you why. 693 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:26,955 I have of late - but wherefore I know not - lost all my mirth, 694 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,310 foregone all custom of exercises, 695 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,432 and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition 696 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:37,111 that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; 697 00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,278 this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, 698 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:45,395 this brave, o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, 699 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:51,550 why, it appeareth to me nothing but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. 700 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,672 What piece of work is a man! 701 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,792 How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! 702 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,230 In form and moving, how express and admirable! 703 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,637 In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! 704 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,115 The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! 705 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:12,156 And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? 706 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:13,918 Man delights not me, 707 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,270 nor women neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. 708 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:17,879 My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts. 709 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,116 Why did ye laugh, then, when I said "Man delights not me"? 710 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:21,799 To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, 711 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,117 what lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you. 712 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,915 We coted them on the way; and hither they are coming to offer you service. 713 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:33,671 He that plays the king shall be welcome; his Majesty shall have tribute of me. 714 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,636 There are the players. 715 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,674 Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Come then, your hands, you are welcome. 716 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,030 But my uncle-father and my aunt-mother are deceived. 717 00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:46,514 In what, my dear lord? 718 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:49,439 I am but mad north-north-west; 719 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:54,555 when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. 720 00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,359 My lord, I have news to tell you. 721 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,279 My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome... 722 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,438 The actors are come hither, my lord. 723 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,596 - Upon my honour... - Then came each actor on his ass. 724 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,190 The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, 725 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,517 pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, 726 00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:18,190 tragical-historical, tragical-comical, historical-pastoral. 727 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,233 Seneca cannot be too heavy nor Plautus too light. 728 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:27,037 O Jephthah, judge of lsrael, what a treasure hadst thou! 729 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:28,514 What a treasure had he, my lord? 730 00:43:28,720 --> 00:43:31,792 Why, One fair daughter and no more 731 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,878 The which he loved passing well 732 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,308 Am I not i' th' right, old Jephthah? 733 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:41,640 If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing well. 734 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,440 Welcome, masters, welcome, all. 735 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,995 Welcome, good friends. O, old friend! 736 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,839 Why thy face is valanc'd since I saw thee last; 737 00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:59,837 com'st thou to beard me in Denmark? 738 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:01,871 What, my young lady and mistress! 739 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,753 We'll e'en to't like French falconers, fly at anything we see. 740 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,270 We'll have a speech straight. Come, a passionate speech. 741 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,118 What speech, my lord? 742 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,392 I heard thee speak me a speech once; let me see: 743 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,637 "The rugged Pyrrhus, like th' Hyrcanian beast," 744 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,479 "'Tis not so; it begins with Pyrrhus. 745 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,910 "The hellish Pyrrhus old grandsire Priam seeks." 746 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,554 "Anon he finds him..." 747 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,913 "Anon he finds him, striking too short at Greeks; 748 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,236 "his antique sword, rebellious to his arm, 749 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,431 "lies where it falls, repugnant to command. 750 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:40,954 "Unequal match'd, Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide. 751 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,628 "But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword 752 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:45,996 "the unnerved father falls. 753 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:50,193 "Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! 754 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:54,757 "All you gods in general synod take aware her power; 755 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,316 "break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, 756 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:03,230 "and bowl the round knave down the hill of heaven, as low as to the fiends." 757 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:04,668 This is too long. 758 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,598 Then it shall to the barbers with your beard. 759 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,837 Prithee say on. He's for a jig, or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps. 760 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,359 Say on; come to Hecuba. 761 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:16,190 "But who, ah, who had seen the mobled queen...?" 762 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,595 That's good; "mobled queen" is good. 763 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:24,511 "Run barefoot up and down, threat'ning the flames with bisson rheum; 764 00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:28,110 "a clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. 765 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:32,518 "But if the gods themselves did see her then, 766 00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:35,553 "the instant burst of clamour that she made 767 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,038 "would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven 768 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:44,028 "and passion in the gods." 769 00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:47,676 Look, my lord, whether he has not turned his colour, 770 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,950 and has tears in's eyes. 771 00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,071 Prithee no more. 772 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,398 'Tis well, 'tis well; 773 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,909 I'll have thee speak out the rest of this soon. 774 00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,588 Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? 775 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,279 Do you hear; let them be well used; 776 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,472 for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time; 777 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,955 after your death you were better have a bad epitaph 778 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,196 than their ill report while you live. 779 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,960 My lord, I will use them according to their desert. 780 00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,628 God's bodykins, man, much better. 781 00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,435 Use every man after his desert and who shall scape whipping? 782 00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,438 Use them after your own honour and dignity. Take them in. 783 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,473 - Come, sirs. - We'll hear a play tomorrow. 784 00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:29,998 Dost thou hear me, old friend? 785 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,039 My friends, I'll leave you till night. You are welcome to Elsinore. 786 00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:36,992 Good my lord. 787 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,316 - Can you play The Murder of Gonzago? - Ay, my lord. 788 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,078 We'll ha't tomorrow night. 789 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,477 You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines 790 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,830 that I would set down and insert in't, could you not? 791 00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:53,632 Ay, my lord. 792 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:58,834 Very well. Follow that lord; and look you mock him not. 793 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:14,030 O, what a rogue and peasant slave am l! 794 00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:24,112 Is it not monstrous that this player here, 795 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,995 but in a fiction, in a dream of passion, 796 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,112 could force his soul so to his own conceit 797 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,993 that from his working all his visaged wann'd; 798 00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,668 tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, 799 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:43,399 a broken voice, and his whole function suiting with forms to his conceit? 800 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,511 And all for nothing! 801 00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:47,278 For Hecuba! 802 00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,870 What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her? 803 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:58,679 What would he do, had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? 804 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:04,113 He would drown the stage with tears, and cleave the general air with horrid speech; 805 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,471 make mad the guilty, and appal the free, confound the ignorant, 806 00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,673 and amaze indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears. 807 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:18,478 Yet l, a dull and muddy-mettI'd rascal, 808 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,478 peak like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, 809 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,989 and can say nothing; 810 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,315 no, not for a king 811 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:34,833 upon whose property and most dear life a damn'd defeat was made. 812 00:48:36,240 --> 00:48:39,312 Am I a coward? 813 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,876 Who calls me villain, plucks off my beard and blows it in my face, 814 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,514 tweaks me by the nose and gives me the lie i' th' throat as deep as to the lungs? 815 00:48:45,720 --> 00:48:47,995 Who does me this? Ha! 816 00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,318 'Swounds, I should take it; 817 00:48:55,680 --> 00:49:00,310 for it cannot be that I am pigeon-livered and lack gall to make oppression bitter, 818 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,956 or ere this I should 'a fatted all the region kites with this slave's offal. 819 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:05,752 Bloody, bawdy villain! 820 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:11,796 Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! 821 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,594 O, vengeance! 822 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,353 Why, what an ass am l! 823 00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,277 This is most brave, 824 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:43,837 that l, the son of a dear father murder'd, 825 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,237 prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, 826 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,715 must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, 827 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,480 and fall a-cursing like a very drab, a scullion! 828 00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,398 Fie upon't! foh! 829 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,434 About, my brains. 830 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,193 I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play, 831 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:19,713 have by the very cunning of the scene been struck so to the soul 832 00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,630 that presently they have proclaimed their malefactions. 833 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,315 For murder, though it hath no tongue, 834 00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:34,913 will speak with most miraculous organ. 835 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,276 I'll have these players play something like 836 00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,516 the murder of my father before my uncle. 837 00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:42,836 I'll observe his looks: I'll tent him to the quick. 838 00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,589 If he but blench, I know my course. 839 00:50:50,240 --> 00:50:52,708 The play's the thing 840 00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:56,993 wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. 841 00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,320 Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, 842 00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:02,953 trippingly on the tongue; 843 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,593 but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, 844 00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,348 I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. 845 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:11,075 Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, but use all gently; 846 00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,795 for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, 847 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,833 you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. 848 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,157 - I warrant your honour. - Be not too tame neither, 849 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,033 but let your own discretion be your tutor. 850 00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:27,915 Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. 851 00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:32,432 With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature, 852 00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:35,200 for anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, 853 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,038 whose end, both at the first and now, 854 00:51:37,240 --> 00:51:40,073 was and is to hold a mirror up to nature. 855 00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:44,637 Now, this overdone or come tardy off, whiles it makes the unskilful laugh, 856 00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,991 cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must, 857 00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,111 in your opinion, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. 858 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,754 I hope we have reform'd that indifferently with us, sir. 859 00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:54,439 O, reform it altogether. 860 00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:58,110 And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; 861 00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,311 for there be of them that will themselves laugh, 862 00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,830 to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, 863 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,679 though in the meantime some necessary question of the play 864 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:08,108 be then to be considered. 865 00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:12,518 That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. 866 00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:14,711 Go, make you ready. 867 00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:19,199 How now, my lord! Will the King hear this piece of work? 868 00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:23,188 Ay, my good lord. And the Queen too, and that presently. 869 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,550 Bid the players make haste. 870 00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:31,435 - What, ho, Horatio! - Here, sweet lord. 871 00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:34,716 At your service. 872 00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,035 Will you two help hasten them? 873 00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:43,470 - Ay, my lord. - We will, my lord. 874 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:50,790 Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man as e'er my conversation cop'd withal. 875 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,878 - O my dear lord! - Nay, do not think I flatter; 876 00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:55,672 for what advancement may I hope from thee 877 00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,077 that no revenue hath but thy good spirits to feed and clothe thee? 878 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,795 For thou hast been as one in suff'ring all that suffers nothing; 879 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:08,472 a man that Fortune's buffets and rewards hast ta'en with equal thanks; 880 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:12,355 give me that man that is not passion's slave, 881 00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,438 and I will wear him in my heart's core, 882 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:21,033 ay, in my heart of heart, as I do thee. 883 00:53:23,720 --> 00:53:25,392 Something too much of this. 884 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,068 There is tonight a play before the King; 885 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:29,793 one scene of it comes near the circumstance 886 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,195 which I have told thee of my father's death. 887 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,834 I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, 888 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,510 even with the very comment of thy soul, observe my uncle. 889 00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:41,439 Well, my lord: if a steal aught while this play is playing and scape detecting, 890 00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:43,596 I will pay the theft. 891 00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,156 How fares our cousin Hamlet? 892 00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,197 Excellent, i'faith; of the chameleon's dish. 893 00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:03,188 I eat the air, promise-cramm'd; you cannot feed capons so. 894 00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,436 I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words are not mine. 895 00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:07,710 No, nor mine now. 896 00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:10,592 My lord, you once played at the university, you say? 897 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,678 That did l, my lord, and was accounted a good actor. 898 00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,269 - What did you enact? - I did enact Julius Caesar; 899 00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:20,871 I was kill'd i' th' Capitol; Brutus kill'd me. 900 00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:25,596 It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there. 901 00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:30,718 - Be the players ready? - My lord, they stay upon your patience. 902 00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,309 Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me. 903 00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:36,353 No, good mother; here's metal more attractive. 904 00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:37,913 O, ho! do you mark that? 905 00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:39,951 - Lady, shall I lie in your lap? - No, my lord. 906 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:41,991 It's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. 907 00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:43,633 You are keen, my lord. 908 00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,229 It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge. 909 00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,238 - You are merry, my lord. - What should a man do but be merry? 910 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,032 For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, 911 00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:52,878 and my father died within's two hours. 912 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,355 'Tis twice two months, my lord. 913 00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:15,792 What means this, my lord? 914 00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:17,991 Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief. 915 00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,794 Belike this show imports the argument of the play. 916 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,275 We shall know by this fellow. 917 00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:30,831 For us and for our tragedy, 918 00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:36,239 here stooping to your clemency, we beg your hearing patiently. 919 00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,476 Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? 920 00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:40,910 - 'Tis brief, my lord. - As woman's love. 921 00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,237 Full forty years are past, their date is gone, 922 00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,796 since happy times joined both our hearts as one. 923 00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,879 And now the blood that filled my youthful veins runs weakly in their pipes, 924 00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:01,152 and all the strains of music which erstwhile pleas'd mine ear, 925 00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,750 are now a burthen that age cannot bear: 926 00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:07,758 and therefore sweet nature must have her due, 927 00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:11,919 to heaven must l and leave the earth with you. 928 00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,999 O say not so, lest that you kill my heart, 929 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,988 when death takes you, let life from me depart. 930 00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,431 Content thyself, when ended is my date, 931 00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:26,074 thou may'st perchance find a more noble mate. 932 00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:28,555 O speak no more, for then I am accurs'd, 933 00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:32,036 none weds the second but who kills the first. 934 00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:33,798 That's wormwood. 935 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:39,279 A second time I kill my lord that's dead when second husband kisses me in bed. 936 00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:42,472 I do believe you, sweet, what now you speak; 937 00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,274 but what we do determine oft we break, 938 00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,948 so think thou wilt no second husband wed, 939 00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:51,675 but die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead. 940 00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:55,714 Both here and hence, pursue me lasting strife, 941 00:57:55,920 --> 00:58:00,471 if once a widow ever I be wife. 942 00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,034 Madam, how like you this play? 943 00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,549 The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 944 00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:13,557 O, but she'll keep her word. 945 00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,793 Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in it? 946 00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:23,074 No, no; they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence i' th' world. 947 00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:27,114 - What do you call the play? - The Mousetrap. 948 00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:29,390 Marry, how? Tropically. 949 00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:31,636 This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna: 950 00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,799 Gonzago is the duke's name; his wife, Baptista. 951 00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,912 You shall see anon. 'Tis a knavish piece of work; but what of that? 952 00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:42,999 Your Majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not. 953 00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:50,557 This is one Lucianus, brother...nephew to the King. 954 00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:52,718 You are as good as a chorus, my lord. 955 00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:01,237 Pox, murderer; leave they damnable faces and begin. Come; 956 00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:03,192 the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. 957 00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:08,918 Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing; 958 00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:12,556 confederate season, else no creature seeing; 959 00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:16,469 thou mixture rank of midnight weeds collected, 960 00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:20,639 with Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected, 961 00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,991 thy natural magic and dire property 962 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:29,320 on wholesome life usurps immediately. 963 00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,876 He poisons him i' th' garden for his estate. 964 00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:34,957 His name's Gonzago. 965 00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,232 The story is extant and written in very choice ltalian. 966 00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:43,958 You shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago's wife. 967 00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,280 How fares my lord? 968 00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,398 What, frighted with false fire? 969 00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:00,629 Give o'er the play. 970 01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:02,910 Give me some light. Away! 971 01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,635 Why let the stricken deer go weep the hart ungalled play 972 01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:11,914 For some must watch while some must sleep; thus runs the world away 973 01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:15,078 O, sir, would not this get me a fellowship in a cry of players? 974 01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:16,872 - Half a share. - A whole one, l. 975 01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:18,593 For thou dost know, O Damon dear 976 01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,598 This realm dismantled was of Jove himself 977 01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,678 And now reigns here a very very...paiock 978 01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:26,108 You might have rhymed. 979 01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:29,357 O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pounds. Didst perceive? 980 01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:32,870 Very well, my lord. I did very well note him. 981 01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:35,036 Good my lord. 982 01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:36,878 Come, some music. 983 01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:38,877 Come, the recorders. 984 01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:42,675 For if the King like not the comedy, why, then belike he likes it not, perdy. 985 01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,874 Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you. 986 01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:47,308 Sir, a whole history. 987 01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:51,195 The Queen, your mother, in most great affliction of spirit, hath sent me to you. 988 01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:52,753 - You are welcome. - Nay, good my lord, 989 01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:54,439 this courtesy is not of the right breed. 990 01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:56,676 If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer, 991 01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:58,359 I will do your mother's commandment. 992 01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:01,393 - Sir, I cannot. - What, my lord? 993 01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:04,797 Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased. 994 01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:06,911 But such answer as I can make, you shall command. 995 01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:08,712 Or rather, as you say, my mother. 996 01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:10,512 She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed. 997 01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:13,393 We shall obey were she ten times our mother. 998 01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:15,272 Have you any further trade with us? 999 01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,710 My lord, you once did love me. 1000 01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:21,356 And do still, by these pickers and stealers. 1001 01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:24,028 Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? 1002 01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:26,037 You do surely bar the door on your own liberty 1003 01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:27,593 if you deny your griefs to your friend. 1004 01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,712 Sir, I lack advancement. 1005 01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,115 How can that be, when you have the voice of the King himself 1006 01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:34,753 for your succession in Denmark? 1007 01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:39,192 Ay, sir, but "While the grass grows"; 1008 01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:42,358 the proverb is something musty. 1009 01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:45,518 O, the recorders. O, come, let me see one. 1010 01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:48,792 Will you play upon this pipe? 1011 01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:50,672 - My lord, I cannot. - I pray you. 1012 01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:52,108 - Believe me, I cannot. - I do beseech you. 1013 01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,392 - I know no touch of it, my lord. - It is as easy as lying. 1014 01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:56,874 Look you, these are the stops. 1015 01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,152 But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill. 1016 01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,874 Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. 1017 01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,230 You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; 1018 01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:07,032 you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; 1019 01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,708 you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; 1020 01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:12,593 and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ, 1021 01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:14,756 yet cannot you make it speak. 1022 01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:18,953 'Sblood, do you think I'm easier to be played upon than a pipe? 1023 01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:23,596 - My lord... - God bless you, sir. 1024 01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,917 The Queen would speak with you, and that presently. 1025 01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:33,834 Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in the shape of a camel? 1026 01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:38,033 O, yes, by th' mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. 1027 01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,391 Methinks it is like a weasel. 1028 01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,194 'Tis backed like a weasel. 1029 01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:48,678 - Or like a whale? - Very like a whale. 1030 01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,519 - Then I will come to my mother by and by. - I will say so. 1031 01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,473 "By and by" is easily said. 1032 01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:01,075 Leave me, friends. 1033 01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,998 Let me be cruel, not unnatural: 1034 01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:16,717 I will speak daggers to her, but use none. 1035 01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,839 A will come straight. Look you lay home to him; 1036 01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,190 tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, 1037 01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:27,710 and that your Grace hath screened and stood between much heat and him. 1038 01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:30,309 I'll silence me even here. 1039 01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,072 Pray you, be round with him. 1040 01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:36,670 I'll warrant you. Fear me not. 1041 01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:52,072 Now, Mother, what's the matter? 1042 01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:55,192 Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. 1043 01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:58,949 Mother, you have my father much offended. 1044 01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:01,071 Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. 1045 01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:04,272 Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. 1046 01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,596 - Why, how now, Hamlet? - What's the matter now? 1047 01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:14,669 - Have you forgot me? - No, by the rood, not so: 1048 01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:18,873 you are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife. 1049 01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:22,277 And - would it were not so - you are my mother. 1050 01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:27,519 Nay, then I'll set those to you that can speak. 1051 01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:30,075 Come, come, you shall not budge. 1052 01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:33,909 You go not till I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you. 1053 01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:37,829 What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? Help, ho! 1054 01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:40,156 What, ho! help, help, help! 1055 01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,670 How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat! 1056 01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:58,117 O nay, what hast thou done? 1057 01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,071 Nay, I know not: 1058 01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:05,075 Is it the King? 1059 01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:09,512 O, what a rash and bloody deed is this? 1060 01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:12,280 A bloody deed. 1061 01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:17,474 Almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother. 1062 01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:20,990 - As kill a king! - Ay, lady, it was my word. 1063 01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:35,110 Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool! 1064 01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:38,997 Farewell! 1065 01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:42,030 I took thee for thy better. 1066 01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:47,713 Leave wringing of your hands. 1067 01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:50,639 Peace; sit you down and let me wring your heart; 1068 01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:53,115 for so I shall if it be made of penetrable stuff; 1069 01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,197 if damned custom have not braz'd it so 1070 01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:56,753 that it be proof and bulwark against sense. 1071 01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:59,997 What have I done that thou dar'st wag thy tongue in noise so rude against me? 1072 01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:04,239 Such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty; 1073 01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:05,919 calls virtue hypocrite; 1074 01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:09,032 takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love, 1075 01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:12,357 and sets a blister there; makes marriage vows as false as dicers' oaths. 1076 01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:18,510 Ay me, what act that roars so loud and thunders in the index? 1077 01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:26,797 Look you upon this picture 1078 01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:32,028 and on this, the counterfeit presentment of two brothers. 1079 01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:36,837 See what a grace was seated on this brow? 1080 01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:39,554 Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; 1081 01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:41,671 an eye like Mars, to threaten and command; 1082 01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:46,158 a station like the herald Mercury new lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; 1083 01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:48,669 this was your husband! 1084 01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:51,511 Look you now what follows. 1085 01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:55,633 Here is your husband. Like a mildew'd ear blasting his wholesome brother. 1086 01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:57,592 Have you eyes? 1087 01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:03,276 Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed and batten on this moor? 1088 01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:07,874 Have you eyes? 1089 01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:10,799 You cannot call it love; 1090 01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:15,149 for at your age, the heyday in the blood is tame, 1091 01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:18,272 it's humble and waits upon the judgment; 1092 01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:22,792 and what judgment would step from this to this? 1093 01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,634 O, shame! 1094 01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,274 Where is thy blush? 1095 01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:39,270 Rebellious hell, if thou can'st mutine in a matron's bones 1096 01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:43,792 to flaming youth let virtue be as wax and melt in her own fire. 1097 01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:46,036 O, Hamlet, speak no more! 1098 01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:48,595 Thou turns mine eyes into my very soul; 1099 01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:51,473 and there I see such black and grained spots 1100 01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:53,159 as will leave there their tinct. 1101 01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:57,990 Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, 1102 01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:03,399 stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty! 1103 01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:05,830 O, speak to me no more! 1104 01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:13,152 A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe of your precedent lord. 1105 01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:16,238 A king of shreds and patches... 1106 01:08:22,440 --> 01:08:25,989 Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings, you heavenly guards! 1107 01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:30,152 - What would your gracious figure? - Alas, he's mad! 1108 01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:33,272 Do you not come your tardy son to chide, that, laps'd in time and passion, 1109 01:08:33,480 --> 01:08:36,916 Iets go by th' important acting of your dread command? 1110 01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:39,837 O, say. 1111 01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,879 To whom do you speak this? 1112 01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:48,797 - Do you see nothing there? - Nothing at all; 1113 01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:51,195 yet all that is, I see. 1114 01:08:55,680 --> 01:09:00,674 - Nor did you nothing hear? - No, nothing but ourselves. 1115 01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:07,750 My father 1116 01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:12,670 in his habit, as he lived. 1117 01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,792 This is the very coinage of your brain. 1118 01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:18,560 This bodiless creation ecstasy is very cunning in. 1119 01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:20,352 Ecstasy! 1120 01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:25,031 My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time, 1121 01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,708 and makes as healthful music. 1122 01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:35,911 Mother, for love of grace, 1123 01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:38,793 Iay not that flattering unction to your soul 1124 01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:42,356 that not your trespass but my madness speaks: 1125 01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:45,279 it will but skin and film the ulcerous place 1126 01:09:45,480 --> 01:09:50,679 whiles rank corruption mining all within infects unseen. 1127 01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:57,394 Confess yourself to heaven; 1128 01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:00,797 repent what's past; avoid what is to come; 1129 01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:05,357 and do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker. 1130 01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:09,951 O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. 1131 01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:15,473 O, throw away the worser part of it, 1132 01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:18,433 and live the better with the purer half. 1133 01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:31,114 Good night, but go not to my uncle's bed. 1134 01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:36,955 Refrain tonight. 1135 01:10:38,480 --> 01:10:42,439 And that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence. 1136 01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:49,073 Once more, good night; 1137 01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:57,957 and when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you. 1138 01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:11,920 For this same lord I do repent; 1139 01:11:12,120 --> 01:11:17,240 but Heaven hath pleas'd it so to punish me with this and this with me, 1140 01:11:17,440 --> 01:11:21,228 that I must be their scourge and minister. 1141 01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:37,951 Again, good night. 1142 01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:48,195 I must be cruel only to be kind. 1143 01:11:59,920 --> 01:12:03,435 Mother, good night, indeed. 1144 01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:22,274 How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! 1145 01:12:22,480 --> 01:12:24,789 Yet may we not put the strong law on him: 1146 01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:27,878 he's loved of the distracted multitude. 1147 01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:30,275 To bear all smooth and even, this sudden sending him away 1148 01:12:30,480 --> 01:12:31,959 must seem deliberate pause. 1149 01:12:32,160 --> 01:12:33,513 How now? What news? 1150 01:12:33,720 --> 01:12:35,597 Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord, we cannot get from him. 1151 01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:37,836 - Where is he? - Without, my lord, guarded. 1152 01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,110 Bring him before us. 1153 01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:44,117 Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? 1154 01:12:44,320 --> 01:12:46,072 - At supper. - At supper where? 1155 01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,111 Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. 1156 01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:51,278 A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. 1157 01:12:51,480 --> 01:12:53,596 Your worm is your only emperor for diet: 1158 01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:57,952 we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots; 1159 01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:01,038 your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, 1160 01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:03,356 two dishes but to one table. That's the end. 1161 01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:05,630 - Where is Polonius? - In heaven; 1162 01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,035 send thither to see; if your messenger find him not there, 1163 01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:09,798 seek him i' th' other place yourself. 1164 01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:11,399 But if, indeed, you find him not within this month, 1165 01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:13,955 you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby. 1166 01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:16,515 Go seek him there. 1167 01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:18,915 He will stay till you come. 1168 01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:21,714 Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety 1169 01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:25,595 - which we do tender, as we dearly grieve for that which thou hast done - 1170 01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:28,951 must send thee hence with fiery quickness. 1171 01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:31,958 Therefore, prepare thyself; the bark is ready, and the wind at help, 1172 01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,515 th' associates tend, and everything is bent for England. 1173 01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:36,392 For England! Good! 1174 01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:39,717 - So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes. - I see a cherub that sees them. 1175 01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:42,514 But come, for England. 1176 01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:49,997 - Farewell, dear mother. - Thy loving father, Hamlet. 1177 01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:54,352 My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is one flesh; 1178 01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:57,472 and so, my mother. 1179 01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:00,194 But, come; for England! 1180 01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:03,756 Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard. 1181 01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:08,718 And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught, 1182 01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:13,436 as my great power thereof may give thee sense, 1183 01:14:13,640 --> 01:14:20,159 pay homage to us, and contrive at once the present death of Hamlet. 1184 01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:25,955 Do it, England: 1185 01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:30,517 for like the hectic in my blood he rages, 1186 01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:33,075 and thou must cure me. 1187 01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:47,032 O, my offence is rank; it smells to heaven; 1188 01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:51,472 it hath the primal eldest curse upon't, a brother's murder! 1189 01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:05,279 What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself in brother's blood, 1190 01:15:05,480 --> 01:15:10,156 is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow? 1191 01:15:13,480 --> 01:15:16,313 Then I'll look up; my fault is past. 1192 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:22,436 But o, what form of prayer can serve my turn? 1193 01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:26,235 "Forgive me my foul murder"! 1194 01:15:26,440 --> 01:15:28,795 That cannot be; since I am still possess'd of those effects 1195 01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:35,633 for which I did the murder - my crown, mine own ambition and my Queen. 1196 01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:40,110 May one be pardon'd and retain th' offence? 1197 01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:41,639 In the corrupted currents of this world, 1198 01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:44,752 offence's guilded hand may shove by justice; 1199 01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:49,795 and oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law. 1200 01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:52,070 But 'tis not so above: 1201 01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:57,718 there is no shuffling; there the action lies in his true nature. 1202 01:16:02,480 --> 01:16:05,358 Help, angels. Make assay. 1203 01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:11,319 Bow, stubborn knees, 1204 01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:17,516 and, heart, with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. 1205 01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:22,235 All may be well. 1206 01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:26,948 My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. 1207 01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:31,676 Words without thoughts never to heaven go. 1208 01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:42,274 Good sir, whose powers are these? 1209 01:16:42,480 --> 01:16:45,472 - They are of Norway, sir. - How purpos'd, sir, I pray you? 1210 01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:49,150 - Against some part of Poland. - Who commands them, sir? 1211 01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:51,555 The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras. 1212 01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:54,479 Goes it against the main of Poland or some frontier? 1213 01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:56,193 Truly to speak, and with no additions, 1214 01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:59,870 we go to gain a patch of land that hath no more profit in it but the name. 1215 01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:02,833 To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it. 1216 01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:06,350 - God be with you, sir. - I humbly thank you, sir. 1217 01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:13,239 Will't please you go, my lord? 1218 01:17:13,440 --> 01:17:16,079 I'll be with you straight. Go a little before. 1219 01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:35,313 How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge! 1220 01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:37,431 What is a man, 1221 01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:41,519 if the chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? 1222 01:17:42,480 --> 01:17:45,836 A beast, no more! 1223 01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:49,030 Sure he that made us with such large discourse, 1224 01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:51,037 Iooking before and after, 1225 01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:56,268 gave us not that capability and godlike reason to fust in us unus'd. 1226 01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:02,031 Now, whether it be bestial oblivion, 1227 01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:05,710 or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on th' event, 1228 01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:10,471 a thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward, 1229 01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:15,351 I do not yet know why I live to say "This thing's to do", 1230 01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:17,755 sith I have cause, and will, and strength, 1231 01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:20,599 and means to do it. 1232 01:18:21,440 --> 01:18:24,159 Examples gross as earth exhort me; 1233 01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:28,117 witness this army of such mass and charge, 1234 01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:32,438 Ied by a delicate and tender prince, whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, 1235 01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:37,111 makes mouths at the invisible event, exposing what is mortal and unsure 1236 01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:40,039 to all that fortune, death, and danger dare, 1237 01:18:40,240 --> 01:18:42,913 even for an egg-shell. 1238 01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:49,397 Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument, 1239 01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:54,799 but greatly to find quarrel in a straw, when honour's at the stake. 1240 01:18:58,880 --> 01:19:01,474 How stand l, then, 1241 01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:04,069 that have a father killed, a mother stain'd, 1242 01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:08,671 excitements of my reason and my blood, and let all sleep, 1243 01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:12,759 while to my shame, I see the imminent death of twenty thousand men 1244 01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:16,509 that, for a fantasy and trick of fame, go to their graves like beds, 1245 01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,280 fight for a plot whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, 1246 01:19:19,480 --> 01:19:23,439 which is not tomb enough and continent to hide the slain? 1247 01:19:25,360 --> 01:19:29,751 O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! 1248 01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:31,952 No, I will not speak with her. 1249 01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:34,594 She is importunate, indeed distract. Her mood will needs be pitied. 1250 01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,917 'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew dangerous conjectures 1251 01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:40,475 in ill-breeding minds. 1252 01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:44,430 Let her come in. 1253 01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:51,837 Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark? 1254 01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:54,349 How now, Ophelia! 1255 01:19:56,840 --> 01:20:00,628 How should I your true love know 1256 01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:04,196 From the other one? 1257 01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:08,029 By his cockle hat and staff 1258 01:20:08,240 --> 01:20:11,789 And his sandal shoon 1259 01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:17,552 Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? 1260 01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:22,117 Say you? Nay, pray you mark. 1261 01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:26,313 White his shroud as the mountain snow 1262 01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:30,195 Larded o'er with sweet flowers 1263 01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:34,598 Which bewept to the grave did not go 1264 01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:38,475 With true love showers 1265 01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,911 Alas, look here, my lord. 1266 01:20:48,720 --> 01:20:50,472 How do you, pretty lady? 1267 01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:53,797 Well, God 'ild you! 1268 01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:57,788 They say the owl was a baker's daughter. 1269 01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:03,632 Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. 1270 01:21:03,840 --> 01:21:05,751 God be at your table! 1271 01:21:06,720 --> 01:21:08,551 Conceit upon her father. 1272 01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:11,957 Pray let's have no words of this; 1273 01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:16,915 but when they ask you what it means, say this: 1274 01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:21,955 Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day All in the morning betime 1275 01:21:22,160 --> 01:21:27,188 And I a maid at your window To be your Valentine 1276 01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:29,994 Then up he rose and donn'd his clothes 1277 01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:32,316 And dupp'd the chamber-door 1278 01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:36,479 Let in the maid, that out a maid Never departed more 1279 01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:37,954 Pretty Ophelia! 1280 01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:40,549 Indeed, without an oath I'll make an end on't. 1281 01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:46,872 Quoth she, "Before you tumbled me You promised me to wed" 1282 01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:52,108 He answers: "So would I 'a done by yonder sun, 1283 01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:55,756 "An hadst thou not come to my bed" 1284 01:21:55,960 --> 01:21:58,315 How long hath she been thus? 1285 01:22:01,320 --> 01:22:03,959 I hope all will be well. 1286 01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:06,515 We must be patient; 1287 01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:11,635 but I cannot choose but weep to think they will lay him i' th' cold ground. 1288 01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:15,474 My brother shall know of it; 1289 01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:19,719 and so I thank you for your good counsel. 1290 01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:24,675 Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; 1291 01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:29,317 sweet ladies, good night, good night. 1292 01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:32,794 Her brother is in secret come from France; 1293 01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:36,197 and wants not buzzers to infect his ear with pestilent speeches 1294 01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:37,628 wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd, 1295 01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:40,957 will nothing stick our person to arraign in ear and ear. 1296 01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:45,150 O my dear Gertrude, when sorrows come, they come not single spies, 1297 01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:47,157 but in battalions! 1298 01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:49,715 Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door. 1299 01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:52,480 Young Laertes, in a riotous head, o'erbears your officers. 1300 01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:56,309 The rabble call him lord, they cry, "Choose we, Laertes shall be king". 1301 01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:58,590 How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! 1302 01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:01,075 The doors are broke. 1303 01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:06,828 Thou vile king, give me my father! 1304 01:23:07,040 --> 01:23:08,268 Calmly, good Laertes. 1305 01:23:08,480 --> 01:23:11,631 That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard; 1306 01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:15,196 cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlot even here 1307 01:23:15,400 --> 01:23:19,029 between the chaste unsmirched brows of my true mother. 1308 01:23:19,240 --> 01:23:21,913 What is the cause, Laertes, that thy rebellion looks so giant-like? 1309 01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:25,510 Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person: 1310 01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:28,198 there's such divinity doth hedge a king 1311 01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:32,678 that treason can but peep at what it would, acts little of his will. 1312 01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:34,393 - Where is my father? - Dead. 1313 01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:35,999 - But not by him. - Let him demand his fill. 1314 01:23:36,200 --> 01:23:39,078 How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with. 1315 01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:42,829 To hell, allegiance! Vows to the blackest devil! 1316 01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:45,156 I dare damnation. 1317 01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:49,512 Good Laertes, if you desire to know the certainty of your dear father's death, 1318 01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:51,517 is't writ in your revenge that, swoopstake, 1319 01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:55,759 you will draw both friend and foe, winner and loser? 1320 01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:57,234 None but his enemies. 1321 01:23:57,440 --> 01:24:01,274 Why, now you speak like a good child and a true gentleman, 1322 01:24:01,480 --> 01:24:04,756 that I am guiltless of your father's death, and am most sensible in grief for it, 1323 01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:08,236 it shall as level to your judgment 'pear as day does to your eye. 1324 01:24:08,440 --> 01:24:10,396 How now! What noise is that? 1325 01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:16,356 O, heat dry up my brains! 1326 01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:21,189 Rose of May! 1327 01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:27,919 Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! 1328 01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:31,749 They bore him barefac'd on the bier 1329 01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:35,839 Sing hey nonny, nonny, hey nonny 1330 01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:40,795 And in his grave rain'd many a tear 1331 01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:43,389 Fare you well, my dove! 1332 01:24:45,480 --> 01:24:48,870 O, how the wheel becomes it! 1333 01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:53,037 It is the false steward that stole his master's daughter. 1334 01:24:53,240 --> 01:24:55,470 This nothing's more than matter. 1335 01:24:56,160 --> 01:24:59,755 Here's rosemary, that's for remembrance; 1336 01:24:59,960 --> 01:25:02,838 pray you, love, remember. 1337 01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:06,271 Here's pansies, that's for thoughts. 1338 01:25:06,480 --> 01:25:10,553 A document in madness - thoughts and remembrance fitted. 1339 01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:15,954 Here's fennel for you, and columbines. 1340 01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:22,876 Here's some rue for you; 1341 01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:26,836 and here's some for me. 1342 01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:29,554 We may call it herb of grace a Sundays. 1343 01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:33,275 But you must wear your rue with a difference. 1344 01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:36,512 Here is a daisy. 1345 01:25:36,720 --> 01:25:40,269 I would give you some violets, but they wither'd all when my father died. 1346 01:25:40,480 --> 01:25:43,517 They say a made a good end. 1347 01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:46,359 God have mercy on his soul. 1348 01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:51,475 And on all you Christian souls, I pray God. 1349 01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:53,636 God be wi' ye. 1350 01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:58,753 Is't possible a young maid's wits should be as mortal as an old man's life? 1351 01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:03,909 Laertes, I must commune with your grief, or you deny me right. 1352 01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:07,590 Go but apart, make choice of whom your wisest friends you will, 1353 01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:10,234 and they shall hear and judge twixt you and me. 1354 01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:26,709 - God bless you, sir. - Let him bless thee too. 1355 01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:28,592 He shall sir, an't please Him. 1356 01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:31,872 I've got a letter here for you, sir. 1357 01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:35,873 It comes from th' ambassador as was bound for England, 1358 01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:40,835 if your name be Horatio, as I'm let to know it is. 1359 01:26:52,200 --> 01:26:55,556 "Horatio, ere we were two days old at sea, 1360 01:26:55,760 --> 01:27:00,151 "a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. 1361 01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:04,353 "Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour; 1362 01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:06,232 "and in the grapple I boarded them. 1363 01:27:06,440 --> 01:27:11,719 "On the instant they got clear of our ship, so I alone became their prisoner. 1364 01:27:11,920 --> 01:27:14,434 "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course for England; 1365 01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:16,596 "of them I have much to tell thee. 1366 01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:21,590 "Give these fellows some means for the King: they have letters for him. 1367 01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:32,998 "Farewell. He that thou knowest thine, Hamlet." 1368 01:27:34,600 --> 01:27:38,559 I loved your father as we love ourself. 1369 01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:41,558 And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine... 1370 01:27:41,760 --> 01:27:44,593 - How, now, what news? - Letters, my lord, from Hamlet. 1371 01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:47,439 This to your Majesty; this to the Queen. 1372 01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:52,798 Laertes, you shall hear them. Leave us. 1373 01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:12,077 "High and Mighty. You shall know I am set naked in your kingdom. 1374 01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:16,230 "Tomorrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes; 1375 01:28:16,440 --> 01:28:18,908 "when I shall, first asking your pardon, 1376 01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:24,240 "thereunto recount the occasion of my sudden and more strange return. 1377 01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:28,394 "Hamlet." 1378 01:28:31,320 --> 01:28:32,912 What should this mean? 1379 01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:36,953 I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come; 1380 01:28:37,160 --> 01:28:40,516 it warms the very sickness in my heart that I shall live and tell him to his teeth, 1381 01:28:40,720 --> 01:28:42,153 "Thus didst thou". 1382 01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:44,749 If it be so, Laertes, will you be ruled by me? 1383 01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:47,793 Ay, my lord; so you will not o'errule me to a peace. 1384 01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:50,230 Two months since here was a gentleman from Normandy. 1385 01:28:50,440 --> 01:28:52,237 Upon my life, Lamond. I know him well. 1386 01:28:52,440 --> 01:28:54,351 He is the brooch indeed and gem of all the nation. 1387 01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:57,518 He made confession of you; and gave you such a masterly report, 1388 01:28:57,720 --> 01:29:02,236 for art and exercise in your defence, and for your rapier most especial, 1389 01:29:02,440 --> 01:29:06,638 that he cried out 'twould be a sight indeed if one could match you. 1390 01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:10,990 - Now, out of this... - What out of this, my lord? 1391 01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:15,515 Hamlet comes back; what would you undertake 1392 01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:19,269 to show yourself in deed your father's son more than in words? 1393 01:29:19,480 --> 01:29:22,040 To cut his throat i' th' church. 1394 01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:25,276 Will you do this? 1395 01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:29,073 Keep close within your chamber. 1396 01:29:30,440 --> 01:29:33,910 Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home. 1397 01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:35,997 We'll put on those shall praise your excellence, 1398 01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:38,668 and set a double varnish on the fame the Frenchman gave you; 1399 01:29:38,880 --> 01:29:42,156 bring you, in fine, together, and wager on your heads. 1400 01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:44,954 He, being remiss, most generous, and free from all contriving, 1401 01:29:45,160 --> 01:29:46,878 will not peruse the foils; 1402 01:29:47,080 --> 01:29:49,594 so that with ease or with a little shuffling, 1403 01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:52,360 you may choose a sword unbated, 1404 01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:55,757 and, in a pass of practice, requite him for your father. 1405 01:29:55,960 --> 01:29:59,953 I will do't; and for that purpose I'll anoint my sword. 1406 01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:02,355 I bought an unction off a mountebank that's mortal. 1407 01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:05,757 I will touch my point with this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, 1408 01:30:05,960 --> 01:30:07,632 it may be death. 1409 01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:09,239 I ha't. 1410 01:30:10,760 --> 01:30:12,671 When in your motion you are hot and dry, 1411 01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:14,632 as make your bouts more violent to that end, 1412 01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:18,230 and that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him a chalice for the nonce; 1413 01:30:18,440 --> 01:30:20,476 whereon but sipping, if he escape your venom'd stuck, 1414 01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:23,069 our purpose may hold there. 1415 01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:25,796 How now, sweet Queen? 1416 01:30:28,000 --> 01:30:31,276 One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast do they follow. 1417 01:30:34,600 --> 01:30:37,512 There is a willow grows aslant the brook 1418 01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:40,439 that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. 1419 01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:47,113 There with fantastic garlands did Ophelia come, 1420 01:30:47,320 --> 01:30:52,440 of crowflowers, nettles, daisies and long purples. 1421 01:30:55,440 --> 01:31:01,276 There, on the pendent boughs her crowned weeds clambering to hang... 1422 01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:06,316 ...an envious sliver broke. 1423 01:31:07,160 --> 01:31:10,311 Then down her weedy trophies and herself... 1424 01:31:12,040 --> 01:31:14,031 ...fell in the weeping brook. 1425 01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:18,394 Her clothes spread wide, 1426 01:31:18,600 --> 01:31:22,275 and, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up. 1427 01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:27,716 Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds; 1428 01:31:30,480 --> 01:31:33,552 but long it could not be... 1429 01:31:35,240 --> 01:31:38,312 ...till that her garments, heavy with their drink... 1430 01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:43,917 ...pulI'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay... 1431 01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:47,597 ...to muddy death. 1432 01:31:47,800 --> 01:31:51,713 Alack, then, she is drown'd! 1433 01:31:51,920 --> 01:31:55,117 Drown'd, drown'd. 1434 01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:01,399 Has this fellow no feeling of his business? He sings in grave-making! 1435 01:32:01,600 --> 01:32:04,558 Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. 1436 01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:10,879 But age, with his stealing steps Hath clawed me in his clutch 1437 01:32:11,080 --> 01:32:15,870 And hath shipped me into the land As if I had never been such 1438 01:32:16,080 --> 01:32:18,310 - Whose grave's this, sirrah? - Mine, sir. 1439 01:32:18,520 --> 01:32:20,397 I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in in't. 1440 01:32:20,600 --> 01:32:23,114 You lie out on't, sir, and therefore 'tis not yours. 1441 01:32:23,320 --> 01:32:26,869 For my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine. 1442 01:32:27,080 --> 01:32:29,878 Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine; 1443 01:32:30,080 --> 01:32:32,469 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest. 1444 01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:34,910 'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away again from me to you. 1445 01:32:36,280 --> 01:32:38,794 - What man dost thou dig it for? - For no man, sir. 1446 01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:41,639 - What woman, then? - For none neither. 1447 01:32:41,840 --> 01:32:44,673 - Who is to be buried in't? - One that was a woman, sir; 1448 01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:46,757 but rest her soul, she's dead. 1449 01:32:46,960 --> 01:32:48,837 How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the card, 1450 01:32:49,040 --> 01:32:51,873 or equivocation will undo us. 1451 01:32:52,080 --> 01:32:54,071 How long hast thou been grave-maker? 1452 01:32:54,280 --> 01:32:55,713 Of all the days i' th' year, 1453 01:32:55,920 --> 01:33:00,914 I came to't that day our last King Hamlet overcame Fortinbras. 1454 01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:02,519 How long is that since? 1455 01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:05,518 Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. 1456 01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:08,951 It was that very day that young Hamlet was born, 1457 01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:10,912 he that is mad and sent into England. 1458 01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:14,237 Ay, marry, why was he sent into England? 1459 01:33:14,440 --> 01:33:16,556 Why, because a was mad: 1460 01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:21,197 a shall recover his wits there; or, if a do not, 'tis no great matter there. 1461 01:33:21,400 --> 01:33:24,153 - Why? - 'Twill not be seen in him there. 1462 01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:26,715 There the men are as mad as he. 1463 01:33:27,880 --> 01:33:34,433 Here's a skull now hath lien here i' th' earth three and twenty years. 1464 01:33:34,640 --> 01:33:37,108 Whose was it? 1465 01:33:37,320 --> 01:33:41,996 A whoreson mad fellow's it was. Whose do you think it was? 1466 01:33:42,200 --> 01:33:44,350 Nay, I know not. 1467 01:33:45,440 --> 01:33:49,115 A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! 1468 01:33:49,320 --> 01:33:51,993 A poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once. 1469 01:33:54,960 --> 01:33:58,919 This same skull, sir, 1470 01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:05,275 was, sir, Yorick's skull, the King's jester. 1471 01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:09,749 - This? - E'en that. 1472 01:34:17,640 --> 01:34:19,596 Alas, poor Yorick! 1473 01:34:23,560 --> 01:34:25,596 I knew him, Horatio: 1474 01:34:27,320 --> 01:34:31,711 a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; 1475 01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:36,791 he hath borne me on his back a thousand times. 1476 01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:40,231 And now how abhorred in my imagination it is. 1477 01:34:40,440 --> 01:34:42,954 My gorge rises at it. 1478 01:34:45,880 --> 01:34:49,839 Here hung those lips that I have kiss'd I know not how oft. 1479 01:34:52,400 --> 01:34:55,517 Where be your jibes now, 1480 01:34:55,720 --> 01:34:58,314 your gambols, your songs, 1481 01:34:58,520 --> 01:35:02,115 your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? 1482 01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:07,353 Now get you to my lady's table, 1483 01:35:07,560 --> 01:35:13,192 and tell her let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. 1484 01:35:17,360 --> 01:35:19,555 Make her laugh at that. 1485 01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:24,756 Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. 1486 01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:26,712 What's that, my lord? 1487 01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:30,998 Dost thou think Alexander look'd a this fashion i' th' earth? 1488 01:35:31,200 --> 01:35:33,634 - E'en so. - And smelt so? 1489 01:35:33,840 --> 01:35:36,195 E'en so, my lord. 1490 01:35:36,400 --> 01:35:39,710 To what base uses we may return, Horatio. 1491 01:35:41,960 --> 01:35:47,637 Imperious Caesar dead, and turn'd to clay, 1492 01:35:47,840 --> 01:35:54,393 might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 1493 01:35:57,520 --> 01:35:58,839 But soft. 1494 01:36:04,120 --> 01:36:07,999 But soft. But soft awhile. 1495 01:36:09,320 --> 01:36:14,633 Here comes the King. The Queen, the courtiers. Who is this they follow? 1496 01:36:14,840 --> 01:36:18,799 And with such maimed rights? Couch we awhile and mark. 1497 01:36:20,160 --> 01:36:21,718 What ceremony else? 1498 01:36:21,920 --> 01:36:25,071 Her obsequies have been as far enlarged as we have warranties. 1499 01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:27,157 Her death was doubtful; 1500 01:36:27,360 --> 01:36:29,749 and, but that great command o'ersways the order, 1501 01:36:29,960 --> 01:36:33,077 she should in ground unsanctified have log'd till the last trumpet. 1502 01:36:33,280 --> 01:36:36,750 - Must there no more be done? - No more be done. 1503 01:36:36,960 --> 01:36:38,678 Lay her i' th' earth; 1504 01:36:40,600 --> 01:36:44,832 and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring! 1505 01:36:45,040 --> 01:36:47,349 I tell thee, churlish priest, 1506 01:36:47,560 --> 01:36:51,109 a minist'ring angel shall my sister be when thou liest howling. 1507 01:36:51,320 --> 01:36:55,552 What, the fair Ophelia! 1508 01:36:55,760 --> 01:36:58,957 Sweets to the sweet; farewell! 1509 01:36:59,160 --> 01:37:01,674 I hop'd thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife; 1510 01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:04,155 I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, 1511 01:37:04,360 --> 01:37:05,588 and not have strew'd thy grave. 1512 01:37:05,800 --> 01:37:09,554 O, treble woe fall ten times double on that cursed head 1513 01:37:09,760 --> 01:37:13,116 whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense depriv'd thee of! 1514 01:37:13,320 --> 01:37:17,916 Hold off the earth awhile, till I have caught her once more in mine arms. 1515 01:37:18,120 --> 01:37:21,317 Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead. 1516 01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:24,353 What is he whose grief bears such an emphasis? 1517 01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:26,949 This is l, Hamlet the Dane. 1518 01:37:27,160 --> 01:37:30,516 - The devil take thy soul! - Thou prayest not well. 1519 01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:33,950 - I prithee take thy fingers from my throat. - Pluck them asunder! 1520 01:37:34,160 --> 01:37:36,469 - Hold off your hand. - Good my lord, be quiet. 1521 01:37:36,680 --> 01:37:39,240 I will fight with him upon this theme until my eyelids will no longer wag. 1522 01:37:39,440 --> 01:37:40,793 O my son, what theme? 1523 01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:44,629 I lov'd Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not, 1524 01:37:44,840 --> 01:37:46,637 with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. 1525 01:37:46,840 --> 01:37:48,512 - What wilt thou do for her? - O, he is mad, Laertes. 1526 01:37:48,720 --> 01:37:51,632 Woo't fast, woo't fight, woo't drink up eisel? I'll do't. 1527 01:37:51,840 --> 01:37:54,070 Dost come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? 1528 01:37:54,280 --> 01:37:55,599 Be buried quick with her, and so will l. 1529 01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:57,995 Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. 1530 01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:01,510 Hear you, sir: what is the reason that you use me thus? 1531 01:38:01,720 --> 01:38:04,075 I lov'd you ever. But it is no matter. 1532 01:38:04,280 --> 01:38:06,635 Let Hercules himself do what he may, 1533 01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:10,150 the cat will mew and dog will have his day. 1534 01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:13,992 Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son. 1535 01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:19,876 Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech; 1536 01:38:20,080 --> 01:38:22,355 this grave shall have a living monument. 1537 01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:27,036 Up from my cabin, my sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark 1538 01:38:27,240 --> 01:38:29,708 grop'd I to find out them; had my desire; 1539 01:38:29,920 --> 01:38:34,038 finger'd their packet, where I found, Horatio, a royal knavery! 1540 01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:37,118 An exact command, that, on the supervise, no leisure bated, 1541 01:38:37,320 --> 01:38:40,357 no, not to stay the grinding of the axe, my head should be struck off. 1542 01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:42,516 - ls't possible? - Here's the commission; read it 1543 01:38:42,720 --> 01:38:43,948 at more leisure. 1544 01:38:44,160 --> 01:38:46,390 But wilt thou hear now how I did proceed? 1545 01:38:46,600 --> 01:38:49,433 I sat me down; devis'd a new commission; wrote it fair. 1546 01:38:49,640 --> 01:38:51,437 An earnest conjuration from the King, 1547 01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:53,198 as England was his faithful tributary, 1548 01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:56,836 he should these bearers put to sudden death, not shriving time allow'd. 1549 01:38:57,040 --> 01:38:59,600 So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. 1550 01:39:00,400 --> 01:39:03,233 Why, man, they did make love to this employment; 1551 01:39:03,440 --> 01:39:05,670 they are not near my conscience. 1552 01:39:08,800 --> 01:39:12,998 But I am very sorry, good Horatio, that to Laertes I forgot myself; 1553 01:39:14,240 --> 01:39:17,471 for by the image of my cause I see the portraiture of his. 1554 01:39:17,680 --> 01:39:19,875 Peace; who comes here? 1555 01:39:21,640 --> 01:39:25,235 Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark. 1556 01:39:25,440 --> 01:39:27,635 - Dost know this water-fly? - No, my good lord. 1557 01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:29,273 Thy state is the more gracious. 1558 01:39:29,480 --> 01:39:31,948 Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, 1559 01:39:32,160 --> 01:39:34,879 I should impart a thing to you from his Majesty. 1560 01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:37,469 I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of spirit. 1561 01:39:37,680 --> 01:39:39,716 Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head. 1562 01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:41,911 I thank your lordship; it is very hot. 1563 01:39:42,120 --> 01:39:45,192 No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is northerly. 1564 01:39:45,400 --> 01:39:47,595 It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed. 1565 01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:50,678 But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion. 1566 01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:57,433 Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, as 'twere - I cannot tell how. 1567 01:39:59,240 --> 01:40:01,629 But, my lord, his Majesty bade me signify to you 1568 01:40:01,840 --> 01:40:04,434 that he has laid a great wager on your head. Sir, this is the matter. 1569 01:40:04,640 --> 01:40:05,868 I beseech you, remember. 1570 01:40:06,080 --> 01:40:11,950 Nay, my good lord; for mine ease, in good faith. 1571 01:40:12,160 --> 01:40:14,833 Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes; 1572 01:40:15,040 --> 01:40:19,272 believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences. 1573 01:40:19,480 --> 01:40:21,630 What imports the nomination of this gentleman? 1574 01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:23,592 - Of Laertes? - His purse is empty already; 1575 01:40:23,800 --> 01:40:25,916 all's golden words are spent. 1576 01:40:26,120 --> 01:40:28,315 - I know you are not ignorant... - I would you did, sir; 1577 01:40:28,520 --> 01:40:30,556 yet, indeed, if you did it would not much approve me. Well, sir. 1578 01:40:30,760 --> 01:40:33,320 ...are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is. 1579 01:40:33,520 --> 01:40:36,114 - I mean, sir, for his weapon. - What's his weapon? 1580 01:40:36,320 --> 01:40:39,949 - Rapier and dagger. - That's two of his weapons, but well. 1581 01:40:40,160 --> 01:40:43,436 The King, sir, hath wager'd with him six Barbary horses; 1582 01:40:43,640 --> 01:40:46,473 against the which he has impon'd, as I take it, 1583 01:40:46,680 --> 01:40:49,638 six French swords and poniards; 1584 01:40:49,840 --> 01:40:52,957 three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, 1585 01:40:53,160 --> 01:40:55,469 very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, 1586 01:40:55,680 --> 01:40:56,954 and of very liberal conceit. 1587 01:40:57,160 --> 01:40:59,993 Six Barbary horses against six French swords 1588 01:41:00,200 --> 01:41:04,159 and three liberal conceited carriages; that's the French bet against the Danish. 1589 01:41:04,360 --> 01:41:06,555 Why is this impon'd, as you call it? 1590 01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:10,673 The King, sir, hath laid, sir, that in a dozen passes between yourself and him 1591 01:41:10,880 --> 01:41:15,237 he shall not exceed you three hits; 1592 01:41:15,440 --> 01:41:19,911 he has laid on twelve for nine, and it should come to immediate trial 1593 01:41:20,120 --> 01:41:22,953 if your lordship would vouchsafe an answer. 1594 01:41:23,960 --> 01:41:26,190 How if I answer no? 1595 01:41:28,680 --> 01:41:34,516 I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial. 1596 01:41:37,080 --> 01:41:41,437 Sir, if it please his Majesty, it is the breathing time of day with me; 1597 01:41:41,640 --> 01:41:43,312 I will win for him and I can; 1598 01:41:43,520 --> 01:41:47,229 if not, I shall receive nothing but my shame and the odd hits. 1599 01:41:47,440 --> 01:41:49,556 Shall I redeliver you e'en so? 1600 01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:53,719 To this effect, sir, after what flourish your nature will. 1601 01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:55,956 I commend my duty to your lordship. 1602 01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:59,197 Yours, yours. 1603 01:42:05,080 --> 01:42:07,435 - You will lose, my lord. - I do not think so. 1604 01:42:07,640 --> 01:42:10,552 Since he went into France I have been in continual practice. 1605 01:42:10,760 --> 01:42:12,910 I shall win at the odds. 1606 01:42:14,960 --> 01:42:18,157 But thou would'st not think how ill all's here about my heart; but it is no matter. 1607 01:42:18,360 --> 01:42:22,433 Nay, good my lord. If your mind dislike anything, obey it. 1608 01:42:22,640 --> 01:42:25,473 I will forestall their repair hither and say you are not fit. 1609 01:42:25,680 --> 01:42:28,069 Not a whit; 1610 01:42:28,280 --> 01:42:30,350 we defy augury: 1611 01:42:32,280 --> 01:42:36,239 there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. 1612 01:42:37,800 --> 01:42:42,396 If it be now, 'tis not to come; 1613 01:42:42,600 --> 01:42:48,197 if it be not to come, it will be now; 1614 01:42:48,400 --> 01:42:52,359 if it be not now, yet it will come; 1615 01:42:53,680 --> 01:42:56,274 the readiness is all. 1616 01:42:58,560 --> 01:43:01,870 Since no man has aught of what he leaves, 1617 01:43:02,080 --> 01:43:05,914 what is't to leave betimes? Let be. 1618 01:43:07,920 --> 01:43:12,198 Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me. 1619 01:43:13,600 --> 01:43:16,034 Give me your pardon, sir. I have done you wrong; 1620 01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:18,310 but pardon't as you are a gentleman. 1621 01:43:18,520 --> 01:43:20,590 This presence knows, and you must needs have heard 1622 01:43:20,800 --> 01:43:23,268 how I am punished with a sore affliction. 1623 01:43:23,480 --> 01:43:26,790 What I have done that might your nature, honour and exception roughly awake, 1624 01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:29,514 I here proclaim was madness. 1625 01:43:29,720 --> 01:43:31,073 I am satisfied in nature, 1626 01:43:31,280 --> 01:43:34,795 whose motive in this case should stir me most to my revenge; 1627 01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:37,878 but in my terms of honour, I stand aloof, 1628 01:43:38,080 --> 01:43:42,119 and will no reconcilement till by some elder masters of known honour 1629 01:43:42,320 --> 01:43:45,437 I have a voice and precedent of peace to keep my name ungor'd. 1630 01:43:45,640 --> 01:43:48,154 I embrace it freely; and will this brother's wager frankly play. 1631 01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:49,873 Cousin Hamlet, you know the wager? 1632 01:43:50,080 --> 01:43:53,356 Very well, my lord; your Grace has laid the odds a' th' weaker side. 1633 01:43:53,560 --> 01:43:55,790 I do not fear it: I have seen you both; 1634 01:43:56,000 --> 01:43:57,877 since he is better, we have therefore odds. 1635 01:43:58,080 --> 01:44:01,390 This is too heavy; let me see another. 1636 01:44:04,160 --> 01:44:05,798 This likes me well. 1637 01:44:06,880 --> 01:44:10,395 - These foils have all a length? - Ay, my good lord. 1638 01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:16,519 Stay. 1639 01:44:17,240 --> 01:44:20,835 If Hamlet give the first or second hit, 1640 01:44:21,040 --> 01:44:24,112 the King shall drink to Hamlet's better breath, 1641 01:44:24,320 --> 01:44:27,357 and in the cup an union shall he throw, 1642 01:44:27,560 --> 01:44:32,190 richer than that which four successive Kings in Denmark's crown have worn. 1643 01:44:35,200 --> 01:44:36,758 Come, begin. 1644 01:44:37,880 --> 01:44:40,189 And you, the judges, bear a wary eye. 1645 01:44:40,400 --> 01:44:42,709 - Come on, sir. - Come, my lord. 1646 01:44:44,320 --> 01:44:47,630 - One. Judgment? - A hit, a very palpable hit. 1647 01:44:48,880 --> 01:44:50,233 Well, again. 1648 01:44:50,440 --> 01:44:53,989 Hamlet, this pearl is thine. 1649 01:44:57,000 --> 01:44:58,877 Here's to thy health. 1650 01:45:00,080 --> 01:45:03,152 I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile. 1651 01:45:28,480 --> 01:45:29,993 Another hit; what say you? 1652 01:45:30,200 --> 01:45:32,555 A touch, a touch, I do confess't. 1653 01:45:32,760 --> 01:45:35,797 - Our son shall win. - He's fat and scant of breath. 1654 01:45:36,000 --> 01:45:41,074 Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, wipe thy brow. 1655 01:45:43,200 --> 01:45:46,875 The Queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet. 1656 01:45:47,080 --> 01:45:51,631 - Gertrude, do not drink. - I will, my lord; I pray you, pardon me. 1657 01:45:54,080 --> 01:45:56,913 I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by. 1658 01:45:58,720 --> 01:46:01,996 - My lord, I'll hit him now. - I do not think't. 1659 01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:03,872 Come, for the third. Laertes, you do but dally; 1660 01:46:04,080 --> 01:46:06,640 pass with your best violence; I fear you make a wanton of me. 1661 01:46:06,840 --> 01:46:09,593 Say you so? Come on. 1662 01:46:16,240 --> 01:46:17,639 - Hit! Hit! - No. 1663 01:46:17,840 --> 01:46:20,400 Nothing, neither way. 1664 01:46:21,760 --> 01:46:23,557 Have at you now! 1665 01:46:29,440 --> 01:46:31,271 Part them; they are incens'd. 1666 01:46:53,480 --> 01:46:55,710 Nay, come again. 1667 01:47:00,880 --> 01:47:02,950 Look to the Queen there, ho! 1668 01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:12,792 They bleed on both sides. 1669 01:47:14,360 --> 01:47:16,316 - How is it, my lord? - How is't, Laertes? 1670 01:47:16,520 --> 01:47:18,397 Why, as a woodcock, to mine own springe, Osric; 1671 01:47:18,600 --> 01:47:20,716 I am justly killed with mine own treachery. 1672 01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:23,388 - How does the Queen? - She swoons to see them bleed. 1673 01:47:23,600 --> 01:47:25,556 No, no... 1674 01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:32,391 ...the drink, the drink! 1675 01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:40,158 O, my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! 1676 01:47:43,120 --> 01:47:46,032 I am poison'd. 1677 01:48:00,600 --> 01:48:03,433 O, treachery! Seek it out. 1678 01:48:03,640 --> 01:48:09,590 It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain. 1679 01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:13,759 The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, unbated and envenom'd. 1680 01:48:15,360 --> 01:48:18,636 The King, the King's to blame. 1681 01:48:18,840 --> 01:48:22,389 The point envenom'd too! 1682 01:48:24,240 --> 01:48:29,951 Then, venom, to thy work. 1683 01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:38,157 O, yet defend me, friends! 1684 01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:49,273 Here, thou incestuous, murd'rous, damned Dane, drink off this potion. 1685 01:48:49,480 --> 01:48:50,913 Is thy union here? 1686 01:48:53,200 --> 01:48:55,634 Follow my mother. 1687 01:48:56,440 --> 01:49:01,560 He is justly serv'd: it is a poison tempered by himself. 1688 01:49:03,440 --> 01:49:06,716 Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. 1689 01:49:08,840 --> 01:49:12,389 Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, 1690 01:49:12,600 --> 01:49:15,273 nor thine on me! 1691 01:49:17,880 --> 01:49:22,078 Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee. 1692 01:49:26,920 --> 01:49:29,036 I am dead, Horatio. 1693 01:49:31,760 --> 01:49:33,637 Thou livest; 1694 01:49:33,840 --> 01:49:36,718 report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied. 1695 01:49:36,920 --> 01:49:38,239 Never believe it. 1696 01:49:38,440 --> 01:49:41,955 I am more an antique Roman than a Dane; here's yet some liquor left. 1697 01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:46,199 Give me the cup. Let go. By heaven, I'll ha't. 1698 01:49:56,840 --> 01:50:03,393 O God! Horatio, what a wounded name, things standing thus unknown, 1699 01:50:03,600 --> 01:50:06,239 shall I leave behind me. 1700 01:50:10,400 --> 01:50:14,359 If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, 1701 01:50:14,560 --> 01:50:18,792 absent thee from felicity awhile, 1702 01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:24,950 and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story. 1703 01:50:28,320 --> 01:50:31,232 O, I die, Horatio! 1704 01:50:32,600 --> 01:50:36,354 The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit. 1705 01:50:39,720 --> 01:50:44,475 The rest is... 1706 01:50:48,040 --> 01:50:49,951 ...silence. 1707 01:50:53,080 --> 01:50:55,799 Now cracks a noble heart. 1708 01:51:00,720 --> 01:51:04,190 Good night, sweet prince, 1709 01:51:06,200 --> 01:51:10,557 and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!