Hamlet (24 page)

Which have
solicited.
The rest is silence.
O, o, o, o
³²³
!

Dies

HORATIO
    Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince,

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!—

Why does the drum come hither?

FORTINBRAS
    Where is this sight?

HORATIO
    What is it ye
would
³²⁸
see?

If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.

FORTINBRAS
    This
quarry
cries on havoc
³³⁰
. O proud death,

What feast is
toward
in thine eternal
cell
³³¹
,

That thou so many princes at a shot

So bloodily hast struck?

AMBASSADOR
    The sight is
dismal
³³⁴
,

And our affairs from England come too late:

The ears
³³⁶
are senseless that should give us hearing,

To tell him his commandment is fulfilled,

That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

Where should we have our thanks?

HORATIO
    Not from his mouth,

Had it th’ability of life to thank you:

He never gave commandment for their death.

But since, so
jump
upon this bloody
question
³⁴³
,

You from the Polack wars, and you from England,

Are here arrived, give order that these bodies

High on a
stage
be placèd to the
view
³⁴⁶
,

And let me speak to th’yet unknowing world

How these things came about: so shall you hear

Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts,

Of
accidental judgements
,
casual
³⁵⁰
slaughters,

Of deaths
put on
by cunning and
forced cause
³⁵¹
,

And, in this
upshot
³⁵²
, purposes mistook

Fall’n on the inventors’ heads: all this can I

Truly
deliver
³⁵⁴
.

FORTINBRAS
    Let us haste to hear it,

And call the noblest to the audience.

For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:

I have some rights
of memory
³⁵⁸
in this kingdom,

Which now to claim my
vantage
³⁵⁹
doth invite me.

HORATIO
    Of that I shall have also cause to speak,

And from his mouth whose
voice
will
draw on
³⁶¹
more:

But let
this same
be
presently
³⁶²
performed,

Even while men’s minds are
wild
³⁶³
, lest more mischance

On
³⁶⁴
plots and errors happen.

FORTINBRAS
    Let four captains

Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage,

For he was likely, had he been
put on
³⁶⁷
,

To have proved most royally: and for his
passage
³⁶⁸
,

The soldiers’ music and the rites of war

Speak
³⁷⁰
loudly for him.

Take up the body: such a sight as this

Becomes the field
, but here
shows much amiss
³⁷²
.

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

List of parts
= Ed

1.1.70 he
= Q1/Q2.
Not in
F
72 steelèd
= Ed. Q1/Q2 = sleaded. F = sledded
pole-axe
= F (Pollax)
. Sometimes emended to
Polacks
104 designed
= F2. F = designe
126 haply
spelled
happily
in
F
151 say
= Q1/Q2. F = sayes
167 Let’s
= Q1/Q2. F= Let

1.2.8 sometime
= Q2. F = sometimes
67 SH GERTRUDE
= Ed. F =
Queen
.
129 solid
= F. Q2 = sallied,
sometimes emended to
sullied
134 Seem
= Q2. F = Seemes
141 beteem
= Q2. F = beteene
207 distilled
= Q1/Q2. F = bestil’d
212 Where, as
= Ed. F = Whereas
221 its
= Q4. F = it
232 SH MARCELLUS
and
BARNARDO
= Ed. F =
Both
.
249 SH MARCEL-LUS
and
BARNARDO
= Ed. F =
All
.
254 walk
= Q1/Q2. F = wake
260 tenable
= Q1/Q2. F = treble

1.3.18 will
= Q2. F = feare
23 sanctity
= F. Q2 = safety. Ed = sanity
whole
= Q2. F = weole
48 watchman
Q2. F = watchmen
68 new-hatched
= Q2. F = vnhatch’t
77 chief
spelled
cheff
in
F
113 Running
= Ed. F = Roaming
121 Lends
= Q1/Q2. F = Giues
132 dye
= Q2. F = eye
134 bawds
= Ed. F = bonds

1.4.10 wassail
= Q1/Q2. F = wassels
23 intents
= Q1/Q2. F = euents
37 the
= Q1/Q2. F = thee;
54 summit
= Ed. F = Sonnet
64 artery
= Ed. F = Artire

1.5.23 on
spelled an in F
33 I
= Q2.
Not in
F
38 roots
= Q1/Q2. F = rots
48 wit
= Ed. F = wits
with
= Q1/Q2. F = hath
50 to his
= Q1/Q2. F = to to this
74 eager
spelled
Aygre
in
F
76 barked
= Q1/Q2. F = bak’d
112–13 My tables, My tables
= F (
in one line
). Q1/Q2
does not repeat
122 SH HAMLET
= Q2. F =
Mar
.
123 Hillo
spelled
Ilio
in
F
146 whirling
spelled
hurling
in
F
150 Horatio
= Q2. F = my Lord
174 our
= Q1/Q2. F = for
194 they
= Q1/Q2. F = there

2.1.1 this
= Q1/Q2. F = his
3 marvellous
spelled
maruels
in
F
15 As
= Q2. F = And
67 carp
= Q2. F = Cape
121 feared
= Q2. F = feare

2.2.0 SD
with others
F
has the Latin “Cum alijs”
17 Whether … thus
= Q2.
Not in
F (
compositor’s eyeskip?
)
46 lord? I
= Q2. F = lord?
48 and
= Q1/Q2. F = one
55 fruit
= Q2. F = Newes
129 solicitings
= Q2. F = soliciting
169 does
= Q2. F = ha’s
204 that you read
= Q2. F = you meane
208 lack
= Q2. F = locke
226 SD
Enter … Guildenstern
placed one line later in
F
239 favours
= Q2. F = fauour
283 of
= Q1/Q2.
Not in
F
297 discovery, and
= Q2. F = discouery of
300 heavily
= Q2. F = heauenly
303 firmament
= Q2.
Not in
F
339 berattle
= F2. F = be-ratled
345 most like
= Ed. F = like most
384 Roscius, an
= F (
Rossius
an). Q1/Q2 =
Rossius
was an
388 came
= Q2. F = can
392 individable
= Q2. F = indiuible
411 pious
= Q2. F =
Pons
415 valanced
= Q2. F = valiant
427 caviar
spelled Caviarie in
F
434–35 as … fine
= Q2.
Not in
F
435 One
= Q2. F = One cheefe
447 total
= Q1/Q2. F = to take
455 So, proceed you
. = Q2.
Not in
F
461 matched
= Q2. F = match
465 this
= Q2. F = his
485 fellies
spelled
Fallies
in
F
492 mobled
= Q1/Q2. F = ino-bled (
throughout
)
539 wanned
= Q2. F = warm’d
566 bawdy
= Q2. F = a Bawdy
569 Why
= Q2. F = Who

3.1.33 here
= Q2. F = there
48 please you
= Q2. F = please ye
53 sugar
= Q2. F = surge
77 proud
= Q2. F = poore
83 would these
= F. Q2 = would
93 away
= F. Q2 = awry
104 I know
= F. Q2 = you know
106 their perfume lost
= Q2. F = then perfume left
117 with
= Q1/Q2. F = your
138 nowhere
= Q2. F = no way
147 paintings
= Q1/Q2. F = pratlings
148 face
= Q1/Q2. F = pace
149 jig
spelled gidge in F
160 And
= Q2. F = Haue
182 this
= F. Q2 = his

3.2.4 with
= Q2.
Not in
F
17 o’erstep
= Q2. F = ore-stop
29 nor no man
= Ed. F = or Norman
56 lick
= Q2. F = like
58 fawning
= Q2. F = faining
59 her
= Q2. F = my
75 thy
= Q2. F = my
80 stithy
spelled
Stythe
in
F
heedful
= Q2. F = needfull
94 mine now
. = Ed. F = mine. Now
138 SH PROLOGUE
= Ed.
Not in
F
144 SH PLAYER KING
= Ed. F =
King
.
153 former
= Q2. F = forme
174 you think
= Q2. F = you. Think
184 either
= Q2. F = other
185 enactures
= Q2. F= ennactors
228 wince
spelled
winch
in
F
237 mis-take
= Ed. F = mistake
your
= Q1/Q2.
Not in
F
280 SD
Enter … Guildenstern
occurs four lines earlier in
F
305 as you
= Q2. F = you
350 speak
= Q2.
Not in
F
358 mass
= Q2. F = Misse

3.3.15 weal
= Q2. F = spirit
19 summit
= Ed. F = Somnet

3.4.4 silence
= F.
Sometimes emended to
sconce = conceal
14 a wicked
= Q2. F = an idle (
probably picked up by compositor from previous line
)
38 better
= Q2. F = Betters
51 sets
= Q2. F = makes
73 brother
= Q2. F = breath
87 And
= Q2. F = As
121 do
= Q2.
Not in
F
122 th’incorporal
=

Q2. F = their corporall
126 on
= Ed. F = an
151 a
= F. Q2 = that
158 ranker
= Q2. F = ranke
159 these
= Q2. F = this
181 bloat
= Ed. F = blunt. Q2 = blowt
243 mother’s closet
= Q2. F = Mother Clossets

4.1.16 ape an apple
= Ed. F = Ape. Q = an apple

4.2.7 ne’er
spelled neerer in F
24 ourselves
= Q2. F = our selfe
27–29 SH KING Alas … worm
= Q2.
Not in
F (
probably due to printer’s error
)
51 them
= Q2. F = him

4.4.13 might
= Q2. F = would
42 yield
spelled
dil’d
in
F
76 sorrows come
= Q2. F = sorrows comes
77 battalions
= Q2. F = Battaliaes
87 Feeds
= Q2. F = Keepes
113 SH ALL FOLLOWERS
= Ed. F =
All
.
119 that’s calm
= Q2. F = that calmes
148 is’t
= Q2. F = if
149 sweepstake
spelled
Soop-stake
in
F
154 pelican
= Q2. F = Politician
163 SH ALL FOLLOWERS
= Ed.
Not in F
180 sing ’a-down
= Q2. F = sing downe
185 pansies
= Q2. F = Paconcies
209 commune
= Q2. F = common

4.5.9 ambassador
= Q2. F = Ambassadours
12 SH HORATIO
= Ed.
Not in
F

4.6.26 aimed
= Q2. F = arm’d
29 has
= Ed. F = was
59 diest
= Ed. F = diddest
71 since
= Q2. F = hence
74 can
= Q2. F = ran
97 What
= Q2. F = Why
140 cunnings
= Q2. F = commings
147 How now
= F2. F = how
166 their
= Q1/Q2. F = her
167 lay
= Q2. F = buy

5.1.1 SH FIRST CLOWN
= Ed. F =
Clown
3 SH SECOND CLOWN
= Ed. F =
Other
11 to
= Q2. F = an
91 of
= Q2. F = of of
92 quiddities
= Q2. F = Quiddits
108 sirrah
= Q2. F = Sir
149 sexton
= Q2. F = sixeteene
206 of
= Q2.
Not in
F
235 treble woe
= Q2. F = terrible woer
244 grief
= Q2. F = griefes
246 Conjures
= Q2. F = Coniure
257 SH HORATIO
=
Q2. F = Gen
.
267 Woo’t fast?
= Q2.
Not in
F
280 couplets
= Q2. F = Cuplet
288 your
= Q2. F = you

5.2.31 villainies
= Ed. F = Villaines
39 effect
= Q2. F = effects
52 ordinant
= Q2. F = ordinate
58 sequent
= Q2. F = sement
62 defeat
= Q2. F = debate
78 interim is
= Q2. F =
interim’s
93 say
= Q2. F = saw
113 king, sir
= Q2. F = sir King
125 bet
= Q2. F = but
129 laid on
= Q2. F = one
nine
= Q2. F = mine
145 turn
= Q2. F = tongue
148 has
= Q2. F = had
many
= Q2. F = mine
157 ill all’s
= Q2. F = all
162 it
= Q2.
Not in
F
188 brother
= Q2. F = Mother
195 ungored
= Q2. F = vngorg’d
266 own
= Q2.
Not in
F
269 swoons
spelled
sounds
in
F
272 Ho!
spelled
How!
in
F
313 SD
shot
= Ed. F =
shout
324 cracks
= Q2. F = cracke
330 This
= Q2. F = His
332 shot
= Q2. F = shoote
339 now
= Q1/Q2. F = are
340 also
= Q2. F = alwayes
343 while
= Q2. F = whiles