Hamlet.

Why, look you there! look, how it steals away!
My father, in his habit as he lived!

Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal!

Queen.

[Exit Ghost L.

[In extreme terror.

This is the very coinage of your brain :

This bodiless creation ecstasy

Is very cunning in.

Ecstasy!

Hamlet.

My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
And makes as healthful music: it is not madness
That I have uttered: bring me to the test,
And I the matter will re-word; which madness
Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul,
That not your trespass, but my madness speaks:
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;
Repent what 's past; avoid what is to come;

Queen.

O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.

Hamlet.

O, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half.

Good night: but go not to my uncle's bed;
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Once more, good night :

[The Queen raises her hands as if to bless her son.

Hamlet checks the motion and recoils from her.

And when you are desirous to be blessed,

I 'll blessing beg of you.- For this same lord,

I do repent:

[Pointing to Polonius.

I will bestow him, and will answer well

The death I gave him. So, again, good night.—
I must be cruel, only to be kind :

Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

CURTAIN.

Act Fourth.

Scene First.-A ROOM IN THE CASTLE.

King.

How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!
Yet must not we put the strong law on him:
He's loved of the distracted multitude,

[Enter King.

Who like not in their judgment but their eyes;

And where 't is so, the offender's scourge is weighed,
But never the offence.

How now! what hath befallen?

[Enter Rosencrantz.

Ros.

Where the dead body is bestowed, my lord,

We cannot get from him.

But where is he?

King.

Ros.

Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure.