THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK - 1600 WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR 7. Act IV, Scene 7
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7. Act IV, Scene 7
0 Elsinore. Another room in the Castle.
1 Enter King and Laertes.
2 Claudius.
3 Now must your conscience my acquittance seal,
4 And You must put me in your heart for friend,
5 Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,
6 That he which hath your noble father slain
7 Pursued my life.
8 Laertes.
9 It well appears. But tell me
10 Why you proceeded not against these feats
11 So crimeful and so capital in nature,
12 As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,
13 You mainly were stirr'd up.
14 Claudius.
15 O, for two special reasons,
16 Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd,
17 But yet to me they are strong. The Queen his mother
18 Lives almost by his looks; and for myself,-
19 My virtue or my plague, be it either which,-
20 She's so conjunctive to my life and soul
21 That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,
22 I could not but by her. The other motive
23 Why to a public count I might not go
24 Is the great love the general gender bear him,
25 Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
26 Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
27 Convert his gives to graces; so that my arrows,
28 Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,
29 Would have reverted to my bow again,
30 And not where I had aim'd them.
31 Laertes.
32 And so have I a noble father lost;
33 A sister driven into desp'rate terms,
34 Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
35 Stood challenger on mount of all the age
36 For her perfections. But my revenge will come.
37 Claudius.
38 Break not your sleeps for that. You must not think
39 That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
40 That we can let our beard be shook with danger,
41 And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more.
42 I lov'd your father, and we love ourself,
43 And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine-
44 [Enter a Messenger with letters.]
45 How now? What news?
46 Messenger.
47 Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:
48 This to your Majesty; this to the Queen.
49 Claudius.
50 From Hamlet? Who brought them?
51 Messenger.
52 Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not.
53 They were given me by Claudio; he receiv'd them
54 Of him that brought them.
55 Claudius.
56 Laertes, you shall hear them.
57 Leave us.
58 [Exit Messenger.]
59 [Reads]'High and Mighty,-You shall know I am set naked on your
60 kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes;
61 when I shall(first asking your pardon thereunto)recount the
62 occasion of my sudden and more strange return. 'HAMLET.'
63 What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?
64 Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
65 Laertes.
66 Know you the hand?
67 Claudius.
68 'Tis Hamlet's character. 'Naked!'
69 And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.'
70 Can you advise me?
71 Laertes.
72 I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come!
73 It warms the very sickness in my heart
74 That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
75 'Thus didest thou.'
76 Claudius.
77 If it be so, Laertes
78 (As how should it be so? how otherwise?),
79 Will you be rul'd by me?
80 Laertes.
81 Ay my lord,
82 So you will not o'errule me to a peace.
83 Claudius.
84 To thine own peace. If he be now return'd
85 As checking at his voyage, and that he means
86 No more to undertake it, I will work him
87 To exploit now ripe in my device,
88 Under the which he shall not choose but fall;
89 And for his death no wind shall breathe
90 But even his mother shall uncharge the practice
91 And call it accident.
92 Laertes.
93 My lord, I will be rul'd;
94 The rather, if you could devise it so
95 That I might be the organ.
96 Claudius.
97 It falls right.
98 You have been talk'd of since your travel much,
99 And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality
100 Wherein they say you shine, Your sum of parts
101 Did not together pluck such envy from him
102 As did that one; and that, in my regard,
103 Of the unworthiest siege.
104 Laertes.
105 What part is that, my lord?
106 Claudius.
107 A very riband in the cap of youth-
108 Yet needfull too; for youth no less becomes
109 The light and careless livery that it wears
110 Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
111 Importing health and graveness. Two months since
112 Here was a gentleman of Normandy.
113 I have seen myself, and serv'd against, the French,
114 And they can well on horseback; but this gallant
115 Had witchcraft in't. He grew unto his seat,
116 And to such wondrous doing brought his horse
117 As had he been incorps'd and demi-natur'd
118 With the brave beast. So far he topp'd my thought
119 That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks,
120 Come short of what he did.
121 Laertes.
122 A Norman was't?
123 Claudius.
124 A Norman.
125 Laertes.
126 Upon my life, Lamound.
127 Claudius.
128 The very same.
129 Laertes.
130 I know him well. He is the broach indeed
131 And gem of all the nation.
132 Claudius.
133 He made confession of you;
134 And gave you such a masterly report
135 For art and exercise in your defence,
136 And for your rapier most especially,
137 That he cried out 'twould be a sight indeed
138 If one could match you. The scrimers of their nation
139 He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye,
140 If you oppos'd them. Sir, this report of his
141 Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy
142 That he could nothing do but wish and beg
143 Your sudden coming o'er to play with you.
144 Now, out of this-
145 Laertes.
146 What out of this, my lord?
147 Claudius.
148 Laertes, was your father dear to you?
149 Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
150 A face without a heart,'
151 Laertes.
152 Why ask you this?
153 Claudius.
154 Not that I think you did not love your father;
155 But that I know love is begun by time,
156 And that I see, in passages of proof,
157 Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
158 There lives within the very flame of love
159 A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;
160 And nothing is at a like goodness still;
161 For goodness, growing to a plurisy,
162 Dies in his own too-much. That we would do,
163 We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes,
164 And hath abatements and delays as many
165 As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
166 And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
167 That hurts by easing. But to the quick o' th' ulcer!
168 Hamlet comes back. What would you undertake
169 To show yourself your father's son in deed
170 More than in words?
171 Laertes.
172 To cut his throat i' th' church!
173 Claudius.
174 No place indeed should murther sanctuarize;
175 Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,
176 Will you do this? Keep close within your chamber.
177 Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home.
178 We'll put on those shall praise your excellence
179 And set a double varnish on the fame
180 The Frenchman gave you; bring you in fine together
181 And wager on your heads. He, being remiss,
182 Most generous, and free from all contriving,
183 Will not peruse the foils; so that with ease,
184 Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
185 A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice,
186 Requite him for your father.
187 Laertes.
188 I will do't!
189 And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword.
190 I bought an unction of a mountebank,
191 So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
192 Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,
193 Collected from all simples that have virtue
194 Under the moon, can save the thing from death
195 This is but scratch'd withal. I'll touch my point
196 With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
197 It may be death.
198 Claudius.
199 Let's further think of this,
200 Weigh what convenience both of time and means
201 May fit us to our shape. If this should fall,
202 And that our drift look through our bad performance.
203 'Twere better not assay'd. Therefore this project
204 Should have a back or second, that might hold
205 If this did blast in proof. Soft! let me see.
206 We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings-
207 I ha't!
208 When in your motion you are hot and dry-
209 As make your bouts more violent to that end-
210 And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepar'd him
211 A chalice for the nonce; whereon but sipping,
212 If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,
213 Our purpose may hold there.- But stay, what noise,
214 [Enter Queen.]
215 How now, sweet queen?
216 Gertrude.
217 One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
218 So fast they follow. Your sister's drown'd, Laertes.
219 Laertes.
220 Drown'd! O, where?
221 Gertrude.
222 There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
223 That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
224 There with fantastic garlands did she come
225 Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
226 That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
227 But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
228 There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
229 Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,
230 When down her weedy trophies and herself
231 Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide
232 And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;
233 Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes,
234 As one incapable of her own distress,
235 Or like a creature native and indued
236 Unto that element; but long it could not be
237 Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
238 Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
239 To muddy death.
240 Laertes.
241 Alas, then she is drown'd?
242 Gertrude.
243 Drown'd, drown'd.
244 Laertes.
245 Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
246 And therefore I forbid my tears; but yet
247 It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
248 Let shame say what it will. When these are gone,
249 The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord.
250 I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze
251 But that this folly douts it.[Exit.]
252 Claudius.
253 Let's follow, Gertrude.
254 How much I had to do to calm his rage I
255 Now fear I this will give it start again;
256 Therefore let's follow.
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