THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK - 1600 WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR 4. Act IV, Scene 4
◈ The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (햄릿) ◈
4. Act IV, Scene 4
0 Near Elsinore.
1 Enter Fortinbras with his Army over the stage.
2 Fortinbras.
3 Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish king.
4 Tell him that by his license Fortinbras
5 Craves the conveyance of a promis'd march
6 Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.
7 If that his Majesty would aught with us,
8 We shall express our duty in his eye;
9 And let him know so.
10 Norwegian Captain.
11 I will do't, my lord.
12 Fortinbras.
13 Go softly on.
14 Exeunt [all but the Captain].
15 Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, [Guildenstern,] and others.
16 Hamlet.
17 Good sir, whose powers are these?
18 Norwegian Captain.
19 They are of Norway, sir.
20 Hamlet.
21 How purpos'd, sir, I pray you?
22 Norwegian Captain.
23 Against some part of Poland.
24 Hamlet.
25 Who commands them, sir?
26 Norwegian Captain.
27 The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras.
28 Hamlet.
29 Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,
30 Or for some frontier?
31 Norwegian Captain.
32 Truly to speak, and with no addition,
33 We go to gain a little patch of ground
34 That hath in it no profit but the name.
35 To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
36 Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
37 A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
38 Hamlet.
39 Why, then the Polack never will defend it.
40 Norwegian Captain.
41 Yes, it is already garrison'd.
42 Hamlet.
43 Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
44 Will not debate the question of this straw.
45 This is th' imposthume of much wealth and peace,
46 That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
47 Why the man dies.- I humbly thank you, sir.
48 Norwegian Captain.
49 God b' wi' you, sir.[Exit.]
50 Rosencrantz.
51 Will't please you go, my lord?
52 Hamlet.
53 I'll be with you straight. Go a little before.
54 [Exeunt all but Hamlet.]
55 How all occasions do inform against me
56 And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
57 If his chief good and market of his time
58 Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
59 Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
60 Looking before and after, gave us not
61 That capability and godlike reason
62 To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be
63 Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
64 Of thinking too precisely on th' event,-
65 A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
66 And ever three parts coward,- I do not know
67 Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do,'
68 Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means
69 To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me.
70 Witness this army of such mass and charge,
71 Led by a delicate and tender prince,
72 Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd,
73 Makes mouths at the invisible event,
74 Exposing what is mortal and unsure
75 To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,
76 Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great
77 Is not to stir without great argument,
78 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
79 When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,
80 That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,
81 Excitements of my reason and my blood,
82 And let all sleep, while to my shame I see
83 The imminent death of twenty thousand men
84 That for a fantasy and trick of fame
85 Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
86 Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
87 Which is not tomb enough and continent
88 To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,
89 My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth![Exit.]
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