"Order of Lenin LENFILM Studio" "HAMLET" "Based on the tragedy by SHAKESPEARE" "Screenplay and Direction by Grigory KOZINTSEV" "Director I. SHAPIRO" "Director of Photography I. GRITSUS" "Production Designers:" "Ye." "YENEY G. KROPACHEV, S. VIRSALADZE" "Music by D. SHOSTAKOVICH" "Cast:" "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - I. SMOKTUNOVSKY" "King..." "M. NAZVANOV Queen..." "E. RADZIN" "Polonius..." "Yu." "TOLUBEYEV Ophelia..." "A. VERTINSKAYA" "Horatio..." "V. ERENBERG" "Laertes..." "S. OLEKSENKO" "Guildenstern..." "V. MEDVEDEV Rosencrantz..." "I. DMITRIYEV" "Fortinbras, Prince of Norway - A. KREVALD" "Grave-digger..." "V. KOLPAKOV First Player..." "A. CHEKAYEVSKY" "Second Player..." "R. AREN Third Player..." "Yu." "BERKUN" "Priest..." "A. LAUTER" "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death" "The memory be green," "Yet so far has discretion fought with nature," "That we with wisest sorrow think of him," "Together with remembrance of ourselves." "Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen," "Have we, as it were with a defeated joy," "In equal scale weighing delight and dole," "Taken to wife." "With a defeated joy..." "In equal scale weighing delight and dole..." "Nor have we herein barred" "Your better wisdoms, ...which have freely gone With this affair along." "For all, our thanks." "Now follows." "Young Fortinbras," "Thinking by our late dear brother's death" "Our state to be disjoint and out of frame," "Colleagued with the dream of his advantage," "He has not failed to pester us with message," "Importing the surrender of those lands Lost by his father." "We have here writ" "To Norway, uncle of Fortinbras," "Who, impotent and bed-ridden, scarcely Hears of this his nephew's purpose," "To suppress his further gait herein." "And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?" "You told us of some suit." "What is it, Laertes?" "The head is not more native to the heart," "The hand more instrumental to the mouth," "Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father." "What wouldst thou have?" "Dread my lord, your leave and Favour to return to France," "From whence though willingly I came To show my duty in your coronation." "Yet now, that duty done, my thoughts And wishes bend again toward France," "And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon." "Take thy fair hour, Laertes." "But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son." "Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off," "And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark." "Do not forever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust." "You know it is common... all that live must die," "Passing through nature to eternity." "Ay, madam, it is common." "Why seems it so particular with thee?" "Seems, madam, nay; it is." "I know not 'seems'." "We pray you, throw to earth this woe." "For let the world take note, you're The most immediate to our throne." "For your intent" "In going back to school in Wittenberg, It is most retrograde to our desire." "Let not thy mother lose her prayers:" "Stay with us, go not to Wittenberg." "I shall in all my best obey you, madam." "Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply." "This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet sits smiling to my heart," "In grace whereof, no jocund health That Denmark drinks today," "But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell;" "And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again," "Re-speaking earthly thunder." "Long live the king!" "Come away." "How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable" "Seem to me all the uses of this world!" "Fie on it!" "O, fie!" "'Tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed." "That it should come to this!" "But two months dead!" "Nay, not so much, not two." "And yet, within a month..." "Let me not think on it." "Frailty, thy name is woman!" "A little month!" "Or ever those shoes were old" "With which she followed my father's body, Like Niobe, all tears." "Why she, even she..." "It is not nor it cannot come to good." "But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!" "Hail to your lordship!" "Horatio!" "Your poor servant ever." "Sir, my good friend!" "I'll change that name with you." "And what make you from Wittenberg?" " Marcellus?" " My good lord." "I am very glad to see you." "Good even, sir." "But what is your affair in Elsinore?" "We'll teach you to drink deep." "I came to see your father's funeral." "Do not mock me, fellow-student." "I think it was to see my mother's wedding." "Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon." "Thrift, thrift, Horatio!" "The funeral baked meats did coldly Furnish forth the marriage tables." "My father..." "Methinks I see my father." "O, where, my lord?" "In my mind's eye, Horatio." "I saw him once, he was a goodly king." "He was a man, take him for all in all," "I shall not look upon his like again." "My lord, I think" "I saw him yesternight." "Saw?" "Who?" "The king." "Your father." "The king my father!" "Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear," "Till I may deliver," "Upon the witness of these gentlemen," "This marvel to you." "For God's love, let me hear!" "Two nights together had these gentlemen," "Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch," "In the dead vast and middle of the night," "Been thus encountered." "A figure like your father," "Armed at point, exactly, cap-a-pe," "Appears before them, and with solemn march" "Goes slowly and stately by them." "And I with them the third night kept the watch," "Where, as they had delivered, Both in time, form of the thing," "The apparition comes." "As I do live, my lord, 'tis true." "Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me." " Hold you the watch tonight?" " We do, my lord." "I will watch tonight." " Perchance 'twill walk again." " I warrant it will." "I'll speak to it, though hell itself Should gape and bid me hold my peace." "I pray you all," "If you have hitherto concealed this, Let it be so still." "'Twixt eleven and twelve, I'll visit you." "Our duty to your honour." "Your loves, as mine to you." "Farewell." "My father's spirit in arms!" "All is not well!" "I doubt some foul play." "Would the night were come!" "Till then sit still, my soul!" "Foul deeds will rise," "Though all the earth overwhelm them," "To men's eyes." "My necessaries are embarked." "Farewell." "And, sister, as the winds give benefit," "Do not sleep, But let me hear from you." "Do you doubt that?" "For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour," "Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood." "No more." " No more but so?" " Think it no more." "Fear it, Ophelia, my dear sister," "And keep you in the rear of your affection, out of the shot of desire." "Yet here, Laertes?" "There, my blessings with thee!" "And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character." "Give thy thoughts no tongue," "Nor any unproportioned thought his act." "Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar." "Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not in fancy; rich, not gaudy." "For the apparel oft proclaims the man." "And they in France of the best rank Are most select and generous in that." "Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!" "Most humbly do I take my leave." "The time invites you." "Go, your servants tend." "Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well What I have said to you." "'Tis in my memory locked, And you yourself shall keep the key." "Farewell!" "What is it, Ophelia, he has said to you?" "So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet." "Marry, well bethought." "'Tis told me, he has very oft of late Given private time to you." "What is between you?" "Give me up the truth." "He has, my lord, of late made many tenders" "Of his affection to me." "Affection!" "Pooh!" "You speak like a green girl," "Unsifted in such perilous circumstance." "Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?" "I do not know what I should think." "Marry, I'll teach you:" "Think yourself a baby, That you have taken them for true pay." "Tender yourself more dearly." "My lord, he has importuned me With love in honourable fashion." "Ay, fashion you may call it." "Go to." "And's given countenance to his speech With almost all the holy vows." "Ay, springes to catch woodcocks!" "I know, when the blood burns, how Prodigal the soul lends the vows." "For Hamlet, believe so much in him" "That he's young, and with a larger tether" "May he walk than may be given you;" "in few, do not believe his vows." " I charge you:" "Come your ways." " I shall obey, my lord." "Look, my lord, it comes!" "Angels and ministers of grace defend us!" "It beckons you to go away with it," "As if it some impartment did desire To you alone." "Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground." " But do not go with it." " No, by no means!" "It will not speak here." "Go on!" "I'll follow thee." " You shall not go, my lord." " Hold off your hands!" "Be ruled, you shall not go." "My fate cries out." "Unhand me, gentlemen!" "By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!" "I say, away!" "Go on." "I'll follow you." "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." "Heaven will direct it." "Where wilt thou lead me?" "I'll go no further." "Mark me." "I will." "And lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold." "Speak, I'm bound to hear." "So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear." "What?" "List, list, O, list!" "If thou did ever Thy dear father love." "O God!" "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." "Murder!" "Murder most foul, as in the best it is," "But this most foul, strange and unnatural." "'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard," "A serpent stung me." "The whole Denmark is by a forged Process of my death rankly abused." "But know, thou noble youth," "The serpent that did sting thy father's life" "Now wears his crown." "O my prophetic soul!" " My uncle?" " Ay." "That adulterate beast won" "To his shameful lust the will of my queen." "But, soft!" "Methinks I scent the morning air." "Brief let me be." "Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole," "With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial," "And in my ear poured the distilment." "Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand" "Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched." "O, horrible!" "O horrible!" "Most horrible!" "If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not," "Let not the royal bed of Denmark be" "A couch for luxury and damned incest!" "But, howsoever thou pursuest this act," "Not let thy soul contrive Against thy mother." "Fare thee well at once!" "The glow-worm shows the morn to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire." "Adieu, adieu," "adieu!" "Remember me." "Remember me..." "The time is out ofjoint." "O cursed spite," "That ever I was born to set it right!" "Doubt thou the stars are fire," "Doubt that the sun doth move," "Doubt truth to be a liar," "But never doubt I love." "Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo." "I will, my lord." "You shall do marvelous wisely, good Reynaldo, before you visit him," "To make inquiry of his behaviour." " God be with ye!" "Fare ye well!" " Good my lord!" "Observe his inclination in yourself." "I shall, my lord." "And let him ply his music." "How now, Ophelia!" "What's the matter?" "O, my lord, my lord!" "I have been so affrighted!" "With what, in the name of God?" "As I was sewing in my chamber, Lord Hamlet came..." "Thou still has been the father of good news." "Have I, my lord?" "Assure you I hold my duty." "And I do think, or else this brain of mine" "Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do," "That I have found The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy." "I doubt it is no other but the main " "His father's death, and our overhasty marriage." "My daughter, in her duty and obedience, hath given me this." ""To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most beautiful Ophelia"" "Came this from Hamlet to her?" "But how hath she received his love?" "I went round to work, And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:" ""Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star."" "She took the fruits of my advice," "And he, repulsed, a short tale to make," "Fell into a sadness, then into a fast," "Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness," "Thence to a lightness, and, by this Declension, into the madness." "Do you think 'tis this?" "It may be." "Take this from this, If this be otherwise." " How may we try it further?" " You know," "Sometimes he walks four hours together here." "At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him." "Be you and I behind an arras." "I'll board him presently." "O, give me leave." "How does my good Lord Hamlet?" "Well, God-a-mercy." "Do you know me, my lord?" "Excellent well." "You are a fishmonger." "Not I, my lord!" "Then I would you were so honest a man." " Honest, my lord?" " Ay, sir." "To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand." "That's very true, my lord." "For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog," "being a god kissing carrion." " Have you a daughter?" " I have, my lord." "Let her not walk in the sun." "Friend, look to it." "What do you read, my lord?" "Words, words, words..." "What is the matter, my lord?" "Between who?" "I mean, the matter that you read, my lord." "Slanders." "The satirical rogue says here, that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams." "All which though I most potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down." "For yourself, sir, shall grow old, as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward." "Will you walk out of the air, my lord?" "Into my grave?" "Indeed, that is out of the air." "My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you." "Cannot take from me anything I'll more willingly part with, except my life." "Except my life..." "Except my life." " My honoured lord!" " My most dear lord!" "My excellent good friends!" "How dost thou, Guildenstern?" "Ah, Rosencrantz!" "How do ye both?" "As the indifferent children of the earth." "Happy, in that we're not overhappy:" "On Fortune's cap we're not the button." "Nor the soles of her shoe?" " Neither, my lord." " What's the news?" "None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest." "Then is doomsday near." "But your news is not true." "But what have you deserved at the hands of Fortune, that she sends you to prison hither?" " Prison, my lord?" " Denmark's a prison." "Then is the world one." "A goodly one, in which there're many confines, wards, and dungeons," "Denmark being one of the worst." "We think not so, my lord." "Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." "To me it is a prison." "Shall we to the court?" "For, by my fay, I cannot reason." "We'll follow you and wait upon you, Prince." "No such matter!" "I am most dreadfully attended by my servants lately." "But, in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?" "To visit you, my lord." "Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks." "But I thank you." "Were you not sent for?" "Is it a free visitation?" "Come, deal justly with me." "Come, come; nay, speak." " What should we say, my lord?" " Why, anything, but to the purpose." "I know the good king and queen have sent for you." " To what end, my lord?" " That you must teach me." "But let me conjure you, by the rights of our fellowship and love, be even and direct with me:" "Whether you were sent for, or no?" " My lord, we were sent for." " I will tell you why." "So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather." "I have of late - but wherefore I know not - lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises." "It goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth," "seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, this brave overhanging firmament, look you, this majestical roof" "fretted with golden fire, it appears no other thing to me than a pestilent congregation of vapours." "What a piece of work is man!" "How noble in reason!" "How infinite in faculty!" "In form and moving how express and admirable!" "In action how like an angel!" "In apprehension how like a god!" "The beauty of the world!" "The paragon of animals!" "And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" "Man delights not me, no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." "My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts." "Why did you laugh, then, when I said "man delights not me"?" "I thought what lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you." "We coted them on the way." "And hither are they coming, to offer you service." "What players are they?" "The tragedians of the city." "Those you were wont to take such delight in." "He that plays the king shall be welcome." "The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony." "Let me comply with you in this garb, lest my extent to the players should more appear like entertainment than yours." "You are welcome to Elsinore, gentlemen." "But my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived." "In what, my dear lord?" "I am but mad north-north-west." "When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand-saw." "You are welcome, masters." "Welcome, all!" "O, my old friend!" "Why, thy face is valanced since I saw thee last!" "Comest thou to beard me in Denmark?" "I am glad to see thee well!" "Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last by the altitude of a chopine." "Pray your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked." "Masters, you are all welcome." "Welcome, good friends." "We'll even to it like French falconers, fly at any thing we see." "Give us a taste of your quality." "Come, a passionate speech." "What speech, my good lord?" "I heard thee speak me a speech once, 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido." "And especially where he speaks of Priam's slaughter." "If it live in your memory, begin at this line:" "The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast..." "It is not so." "It begins with Pyrrhus." "...Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, black As his purpose, did the night resemble..." "That's good!" "So, proceed you." "Anon he finds him" "Striking too short at Greeks, his antique sword," "Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls," "Repugnant to command." "Unequal matcht," "Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide," "But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword" "The unnerved father falls." "This is too long." "It shall to the barber's, with your beard." "Prithee, say on." "He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps." "Say on." "Come to Hecuba." "But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen..." "Run barefoot up and down, threat'ning the flames" "With bisson rheum, a clout upon that Head where late the diadem stood," "And for a robe about her lank and all Over-teemed loins, a blanket." "Who this had seen," "With tongue in venom steeped," "'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced!" "But if the gods themselves did see her then," "When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport" "In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs," "The instant burst of clamour that she made" "Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven," "And passion in the gods." "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" "Is it not monstrous, that this player here," "But in a fiction, in a dream of passion," "Could force his soul so to his own Conceit, that all his visage waned," "Tears in his eyes, a broken voice," "And his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?" "And all for nothing!" "For Hecuba!" "What's Hecuba to him," "Or he to Hecuba," "That he should weep for her?" "What would he do," "Had he the motive and the cue for Passion that I have?" "Fie upon it!" "Foe!" "About, my brain!" "It is well." " Dost thou hear me, old friend..." " Ay, my lord." "Can you play the Murder of Gonzago?" " Ay, my lord." " We'll have it tomorrow night." "You could, for a need, study a speech of some 12 or 16 lines which I would set down and insert in it, could you not?" "Ay, my lord." "Very well." "Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed?" "Take them in." "We'll hear a play tomorrow!" "To be, or not to be, that is the question." "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer" "The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," "Or to take arms" "Against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?" "To die," "To sleep," "And by a sleep to say we end" "The heartache, and the thousand Natural shocks that flesh is heir to." "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished." "To die," "To sleep." "To sleep!" "Perchance to dream." "Ay, there's the rub," "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come," "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil?" "Must give us pause." "There's the respect" "That makes calamity of so long life." "For who would bear the whips and scorns of time," "The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely," "The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, the insolence of office," "And the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes," "When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?" "Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life," "But that the dread of something after death," "The undiscovered country, from whose Bourn no traveler returns," "Puzzles the will, and makes us Rather bear those ills we have" "Than fly to others that we know not of?" "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all," "And thus the native hue of resolution" "Is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought." "And enterprises of great pith and moment," "With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action." "Soft you now!" "Ophelia, walk you here." "Gracious, so please you, We will bestow ourselves." "Read on this book." "My lord, how does your honour for this many a day?" "I humbly thank you:" "Well, well, well." "My lord, I have remembrances of yours," "That I have longed long to re-deliver." "I pray you, now receive them." "No, not I." "I never gave you aught." "My honoured lord, you know right well you did." "And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed" "As made the things more rich." "To the noble mind" "Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind." " Ha, ha!" "Are you honest?" " My lord?" "Are you fair?" "What means your lordship?" "That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty." "Could beauty have better commerce than with honesty?" "Ay, truly, the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness." "This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof." "I did love you once." "Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so." "You should not have believed me." "I loved you not." "I was the more deceived." "Get thee to a nunnery." "Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?" "What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?" "We are arrant knaves, all." "Believe none of us." "Where's your father?" "At home, my lord." "Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in his own house." " Farewell." " O, help him, you sweet heavens!" "If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool." "For wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them." "Go to." "I'll no more on it." "It has made me mad." "We will have no more marriages." "Those that are married already, all but one, shall live." "The rest shall keep as they are." "To a nunnery, go." "You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said." "We heard it all." "Go, Ophelia." "If you hold it fit, after the play," "Let his queen mother all alone entreat him" "To show his grief, let her be round with him." "And I'll be placed in the ear Of all their conference." "Do not saw the air too with your hand, thus." "Be not too tame either," "but let your own discretion be your tutor." "Speak the speech, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue." "But if you mouth it," "I had as life the town-crier spoke my lines." "I warrant your honour." "Go, make you ready." "Horatio!" "There's a play tonight before the king, One scene comes near the circumstance" "Which I have told thee of my father's death." "I prithee, when thou see that act a-foot," "Observe my uncle." "For I mine eyes will rivet to his face, And after, we'll join ourjudgments." "Well, my lord." "They're coming to the play." "I must be idle." "How fares our cousin Hamlet?" "Excellent, in faith." "Of the chameleon's dish:" "I eat the air, promise-crammed." "You cannot feed capons so." "I have nothing with this answer, these words are not mine." "No, nor mine now." "My lord, you played once in the university, you say?" "That did I, my lord, and was accounted a good actor." "And what did you enact?" "I did enact Julius Caesar." "I was killed in the Capitol." "Brutus killed me." "It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there." " Be the players ready?" " Ay, they stay upon your patience." "Come here, my dear Hamlet, sit by me." "No, good mother, here's metal more attractive." "O, ho!" "Do you mark that?" "Lady, shall I lie in your lap?" "No, my lord." "I mean, my head upon your lap?" "Ay, my lord." "Do you think I meant country matters?" "I think nothing, my lord." "That's a fair thought to lie between maid's legs." " What is, my lord?" " Nothing." "You are merry, my lord." " Who, I?" " Ay, my lord." "O God, your only jig-maker!" "What should a man do but be merry?" "How cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within two hours." "Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord." "So long?" "Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables." "O heavens!" "Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet!" "Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year." "For us, and for our tragedy," "Here stooping to your clemency, We beg your hearing patiently." "Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?" "'Tis brief, my lord." "As woman's love." "Full thirty times has Phoebus' cart gone round" "Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground," "And thirty dozen moons with borrowed sheen" "About the world have times twelve thirties been," "Since love our hearts, and Hymen did our hands" "Unite commutual in most sacred bands." "So many journeys may the sun and moon" "Make us again count over ere love be done!" "But, woe is me, you're so sick of late, So far from your former state." "Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too." "My operant powers their functions leave to do." "And thou shalt live in this fair world behind," "Honoured, beloved; and haply one as kind" "For husband shalt thou..." "O, confound the rest!" "Such love must needs be treason in my breast." "In second husband let me be accurst!" "None wed the 2nd but who killed the 1st." "The instances that second marriage move" "Are base respects of thrift, but none of love." "I do believe you think what now you speak," "But what we do determine oft we break." "Most necessary 'tis that we forget" "To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt." "So think thou wilt no second husband wed," "But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead." "Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, lf, once a widow, ever I be wife!" "'Tis deeply sworn." "Sweet, leave me here awhile." "I would beguile The tedious day with sleep." "Sleep rock thy brain," "And never come mischance between us twain!" "Madam, how like you this play?" "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." "O, but she'll keep her word." "Have you heard the argument?" "Is there no offence in it?" "No, they do butjest, poison in jest." "No offence in the world." "What do you call the play?" "The Mouse-trap." "Marry, how?" "Tropically." "This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna." "You shall see anon." "'Tis a knavish piece of work." "Gonzago is the duke's name." "But what of that?" "Your majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not." "Let the galled jade wince." "Our withers are unwrung." "This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king." "Begin, murderer." "Pox!" "Leave thy damnable faces, and begin." "Come!" "Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit," "And time agreeing, else no creature seeing." "Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected," "With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected," "Thy natural magic and dire property," "On wholesome life usurp immediately!" " How fares my lord?" " Give over the play!" "Some light!" "Lights!" "Lights!" "Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play." "For some must watch, while some must sleep, so runs the world away." "O good Horatio!" "I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pounds." "Didst perceive?" "Very well, my lord." "Upon the talk of the poisoning..." "I did very well note him." "Come, some music!" "Come, the recorders!" "For if the king like not the comedy," "Why, then, belike, he likes it not, perdy." "Come, some music!" " Good my lord!" " My good lord!" "Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you." "Sir, a whole history." " The king, sir..." " Ay, sir, what of him?" "Is, in his retirement, marvelous distempered." "With drink, sir?" "No, my lord, with choler." "Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to his doctor." "For me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more choler." "Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame." "I am tame, sir." "Pronounce." "The queen, your mother, in great affliction of spirit, sent me to you." " You are welcome." " Nay, good my lord." "This courtesy is not of the right breed." " If it shall please you to answer..." " Sir, I cannot." "What, my lord?" "Make you a wholesome answer." "My wit's diseased." "Therefore no more." "But to the matter." "My mother, you say..." "Your behaviour hath struck her into amazement." "She desires to speak to you." "O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother!" "But is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's amazement?" "My lord, you once did love me." "And do still, by these pickers and stealers." "Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper?" "You bar the door upon your liberty, if you deny your griefs to your friend." "Sir, I lack advancement." "How can that be, when you have the voice of the king for your succession?" "Ay, but "While the grass grows..."" "The proverb is something musty." "O, the recorders." "Let me see one." "To withdraw with you." "Why do you go about me, as if you would drive me into a toil?" "O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too unmannerly." "I do not well understand that." "Will you play upon the pipe?" " My lord, I cannot." " I pray you." "I know no touch of it, my lord." "'Tis as easy as lying." "Govern these ventages with your fingers, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music." "Look you, these are the stops." "But these cannot I command, I have not the skill." "Look you now, how unworthy... a thing you make of me!" "You would play upon me." "You would seem to know my stops." "You would pluck out the heart of my mystery." "You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass." "And there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ," "yet cannot you make it speak." "Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" "Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me." "I your commission will forthwith dispatch," "And he to England shall along with you." "The terms of our estate may not endure" "Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly Grow out of his lunacies." "We will ourselves provide." "Most holy and religious fear it is" "To keep those many bodies safe That live and feed upon your majesty." "God be with ye!" "The cease of majesty Dies not alone." "Like a gulf, doth draw What's near it with it." "Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage." "He's going to his mother's closet." "And, as you said, and wisely was it said," "'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother." "Since nature makes them partial, should overhear" "The speech, of vantage." "Thanks, dear my lord." "What if this cursed hand" "Were thicker than itself with brother's blood..." "Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens" "To wash it white as snow?" "Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence?" "And what's in prayer but this twofold force " "To be forestalled ere we come to fall?" "My fault is past." "O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn?" ""Forgive me my foul murder?"" "That cannot be." "Since I am still possest" "Of those effects for which I did the murder " "My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen." "May one be pardoned, and retain the offence?" "But 'tis not so above;" "there is no shuffling." "There the action lies in his true nature" "And we ourselves compelled, even to the teeth and forehead of our faults," "To give in evidence." "End of Part One"