Hamlet

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen. By Heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets l me ! I say, away ! — Go on: I'll follow thee. [Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet. Horatio. He waxes desperate with imagination. Marcellus. Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. Horatio. Have after.2 To what issue will this come ? Marcellus. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Horatio. Heaven will direct it. Marcellus. Nay, let's follow him. [Exeunt. Scene V. Another Part of the Platform. Enter Ghost and Hamlet. Hamlet. Where wilt thou lead me? speak : I'll go no farther. Ghost. Mark me. Hamlet. I will. Ghost. My hour is almost come. When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must render up myself. Hamlet. Alas, poor ghost ! Ghost. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. Hamlet. Speak; I am bound to hear. Ghost. So art thou to revenge, when thou shall hear. Hamlet. What? Ghost. I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Hercules (see Note 3, p. 32) attacked with a club, and finally choked to death. 1 Hinders. 2 " Have after," i.e., we'll follow him. Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow upl thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:2 But this eternal3 blazon 4 must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list ! If thou didst ever thy dear father love— Ham...