HAMLET by William Shakespeare

Author:William Shakespeare
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: archivio inglese, cover, english
ISBN: 9780140714548
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2012-02-07T10:53:33+00:00

[Scene 4. A plain in Denmark.]

Enter Fortinbras with his Army over the stage.

Fortinbras. Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish

king.

Tell him that by his license Fortinbras

Craves the conveyance of° a promised march

Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.

If that his Majesty would aught with us,

We shall express our duty in his eye;°

And let him know so.

Captain. I will do’t, my lord.

Fortinbras. Go softly° on.

[Exeunt all but the Captain.]

Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, &c.

Hamlet. Good sir, whose powers° are these?

Captain. They are of Norway, sir.

Hamlet. How purposed, sir, I pray you?

Captain. Against some part of Poland.

Hamlet. Who commands them, sir?

Captain. The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras.

Hamlet. Goes it against the main° of Poland, sir, Or for some frontier?

Captain. Truly to speak, and with no addition,°

We go to gain a little patch of ground

That hath in it no profit but the name.

To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it,

Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole

A ranker° rate, should it be sold in fee.°

4.4.3 conveyance of escort for 6 in his eye before his eyes (i.e., in his presence) 8 softly slowly 9 powers forces 15 main main part 17 with no addition plainly 22 ranker higher 22 in fee out-right

Hamlet. Why, then the Polack never will defend it.

Captain. Yes, it is already garrisoned.

Hamlet. Two thousand souls and twenty thousand

ducats

Will not debate° the question of this straw.

This is th’ imposthume° of much wealth and peace,

That inward breaks, and shows no cause without

Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.

Captain. God bye you, sir. [Exit.]

Rosencrantz. Will’t please you go, my lord?

Hamlet. I’ll be with you straight. Go a little before.

[Exeunt all but Hamlet.]

How all occasions do inform against me

And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,

If his chief good and market° of his time

Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.

Sure he that made us with such large discourse,°

Looking before and after, gave us not

That capability and godlike reason

To fust° in us unused. Now, whether it be

Bestial oblivion,° or some craven scruple

Of thinking too precisely on th’ event°—

A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom

And ever three parts coward—I do not know

Why yet I live to say, “This thing’s to do,”

Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means

To do’t. Examples gross° as earth exhort me.

Witness this army of such mass and charge,°

Led by a delicate and tender prince,

Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed,

Makes mouths at the invisible event,°

Exposing what is mortal and unsure

To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,

26 debate settle 27 imposthume abscess, ulcer 34 market profit 36 discourse understanding 39 fust grow moldy 40 oblivion forgetfulness 41 event outcome 46 gross large, obvious 47 charge expense 50 Makes mouths at the invisible event makes scornful faces (is contemptuous of) the unseen outcome

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