To you alone. Mar. Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground. But do not go with it. Ho. No, by no means. Ham. It will not speak; then I will follow it. Ham. Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee;1 And, for my soul, what can it do to that, It waves me forth again: I'll follow it. Ho. What, if it tempt you toward the flood, my Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, That beetles 2 o'er his base into the sea; And there assume some other horrible form, Ham. My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body [Ghost beckons. Still am I call'd:-unhand me, gentlemen : [breaking from them. By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets 1 I me: say, away.—Go on; I'll follow thee. [Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet. Ho. He waxes desperate with imagination. Mar. Let's follow: 'tis not fit thus to obey him. Ho. Have after. To what issue will this come? Mar. Something is rotten in the state of Den A more remote part of the platform. Re-enter GHOST and HAMLET. Ham. Whither wilt thou lead me? speak: I'll When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Ham. Alas, poor ghost! Ghost. Pity me not; but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. Ham. Speak; I am bound to hear. Ghost. So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. Ham. What? Ghost. I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night: And, for the day, confined to fast in fires, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part; To ears of flesh and blood.—List, list, O, list! Ham. O heaven! Ghost. Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. Ham. Murder? Ghost. Murder most foul, as in the best it is; |