Hamlet (25 page)
Authors: William Shakespeare
PASSAGES THAT DO NOT
APPEAR IN THE FOLIO
Lines are numbered continuously, for ease of reference
.
Following 1.1.117:
BARNARDO
I think it be no other but
e’en
1
so:
Well may it
sort
2
that this portentous figure
Comes armèd through our watch, so like the king
That was and is the
question
4
of these wars.
HORATIO
A
mote
5
it is to trouble the mind’s eye.
In the most high and
palmy
6
state of Rome,
A little
ere
the mightiest
Julius
7
fell,
The graves stood tenantless and the
sheeted
8
dead
Did
squeak
9
and gibber in the Roman streets:
As
stars with trains of fire
10
and dews of blood,
Disasters
in the sun, and the
moist star
11
Upon whose influence
Neptune
’s empire
stands
12
Was sick almost
to doomsday
13
with eclipse:
And
even the like precurse
14
of feared events,
As harbingers
preceding
still
15
the fates
And prologue to the
omen
16
coming on,
Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
Unto our
climatures
18
and countrymen.—
Following 1.2.59:
wrung from me my slow leave
By laboursome
petition
20
, and at last
Following 1.4.18:
This heavy-headed revel
east and west
22
Makes us
traduced and taxed of
23
other nations:
They
clepe
us drunkards, and
with swinish phrase
24
Soil our
addition
: and indeed it
takes
25
From our achievements,
though performed at height
26
,
The
pith and marrow of our attribute
27
.
So, oft it chances in particular men
That
for
some vicious
mole
29
of nature in them,
As
30
in their birth—wherein they are not guilty,
Since nature cannot choose his origin—
By their
o’ergrowth of some complexion
32
,
Oft breaking down the
pales
33
and forts of reason,
Or by some habit that
too much o’erleavens
34
The form of
plausive
35
manners, that these men,
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
Being
nature’s livery
37
, or fortune’s star,
His
virtues else
38
—be they as pure as grace,
As infinite as man may
undergo
39
—
Shall in the
general censure
40
take corruption
From that particular fault:
the dram of
eale
41
Doth all the noble substance often douse,
To his own scandal.
Following 1.4.58:
The very place puts
toys
of
desperation
44
,
Without more motive, into every brain
That looks so many
fathoms
46
to the sea
And hears it roar beneath.
Following 3.2.159:
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear:
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
Following 3.2.205:
To desperation turn my trust and hope!
An
anchor’s cheer
in prison be my
scope
51
,
Following 3.4.79
(
before “What devil was’t”
)
:
Sense
52
sure, you have,
Else could you not have
motion
53
: but sure that sense
Is
apoplexed
, for madness would not
err
54
Nor sense to
ecstasy
was ne’er so
thralled
55
But it reserved some
quantity
56
of choice,
Following 3.4.80:
Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Ears without hands or eyes, smelling
sans
59
all,
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so
mope
61
.
Following 3.4.166:
That monster, custom, who all
sense doth eat
62
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
That to the
use
64
of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a
frock
or
livery
65
,
That
aptly
66
is put on.
Following 3.4.170
(
before “Once more, goodnight”
)
:
the next more easy,
For
use
68
almost can change the stamp of nature,
And either
[]
69
the devil, or throw him out
With
wondrous potency
70
.
Following 3.4.178:
One word more, good lady.
Following 3.4.201:
HAMLET
There’s letters sealed: and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged,
They bear the mandate, they must
sweep my way
74
,
And
marshal
75
me to knavery. Let it work:
For ’tis the sport to have the
enginer
76
Hoist with his own petard
:
and’t shall go hard
77
But I will
delve one yard below their mines
78
And blow them at the moon. O, ’tis most sweet
When in one line two
crafts
80
directly meet.
Following 4.3.9:
Exeunt all
[
but the Captain
]
Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz and others
HAMLET
Good sir, whose
powers
81
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
87
of Poland, sir,
Or for some frontier?
CAPTAIN
Truly to speak, and with no
addition
89
,
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
92
it:
Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
A
ranker
rate, should it be sold in
fee
94
.
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
98
!
This is
th’imposthume
99
of much wealth and peace,
That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.
CAPTAIN
God
buy
102
you, sir.
[
Exit
]
ROSENCRANTZ
Will’t please you go, my lord?
HAMLET
I’ll be with you
straight
104
: go a little before.
[
Exeunt all but Hamlet
]
How all occasions do
inform against
105
me,
And spur my dull revenge. What is a man,
If his chief good and
market
107
of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
Sure he that made us with such large
discourse
109
,
Looking before and after
110
, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To
fust
112
in us unused. Now, whether it be
Bestial
oblivion
, or some
craven
113
scruple
Of
thinking too
precisely
on
th’event
114
—
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
117
,
Sith
118
I have cause and will and strength and means
To do’t. Examples
gross
119
as earth exhort me:
Witness this army of such
mass and charge
120
Led by a
delicate
and
tender
121
prince,
Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed
Makes mouths
at the
invisible event
123
,
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death and danger
dare
125
,
Even for an eggshell.
Rightly to be great
126
Is not to
stir
without
great argument
127
,
But
greatly to find quarrel in a straw
128
When honour’s at the stake. How stand I then,
That have a father killed, a mother stained,
Excitements
of my reason and my
blood
131
,
And let all sleep, while to my shame I see
The imminent death of twenty thousand men
That, for a
fantasy and trick
of
fame
134
,
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a
plot
135
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause
136
,
Which is not tomb enough and
continent
137
To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
Exit
Following 4.6.43:
Of him that brought them.
Following 4.6.71
(
before “Some two months since”
)
:
LAERTES
My lord, I will be ruled,
The rather, if you could devise it so
That I might be the
organ
143
.
KING
It
falls right
144
.
You have been talked of since your travel much,
And that in Hamlet’s hearing, for a quality
Wherein they say you shine:
your sum of parts
147
Did not together pluck such envy from him
As did that one, and that, in my regard,
Of the
unworthiest siege
150
.
LAERTES
What part is that, my lord?
KING
A very
ribbon
152
in the cap of youth,
Yet needful too, for youth no less
becomes
153
The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his
sables
and his
weeds
155
Importing
health
156
and graveness.
Following 4.6.92
(
before “Sir, this report”
)
:
Following 4.6.105:
There lives within the very flame of love
A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it:
And nothing
is at a like goodness still
162
,
For goodness, growing to a
pleurisy
163
,
Dies in his own
too much.
That
we
would
164
do,
We should do when we would, for this ‘would’ changes
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are
tongues, are hands, are accidents
167
,
And then this ‘should’ is like a
spendthrift
168
sigh
That
hurts by easing.
But, to the
quick
169
of th’ulcer: