Heartbeats Agains All Odds No One Is to Blame
Village Translation Act 5, Scene 2
Village and HORATIO enter.
HAMLET
And then much for this, sir. At present shall you lot run into the other. Y'all practise remember all the circumstances?
Village
That's everything most that, sir. Now I'll tell you my other story. You practice remember the circumstances of my situation, righ?
HORATIO
Think it, my lord?
HORATIO
How could I non, my lord?
Village
Sir, in my centre in that location was a kind of fighting That would not permit me slumber. Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly— And praised exist rashness for it: let us know Our indiscretion sometimes serves united states well When our deep plots exercise drape, and that should teach us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will—
HAMLET
Sir, there was a kind of war in my center that wouldn't let me slumber. Information technology seemed to me that I was in worse shape fifty-fifty than convict rebels in bondage. I impulsively—permit me praise impulsiveness. Sometimes acting impulsively works even when our complicated plans don't work out, showing us that a God who shapes our destiny—
HORATIO
That is most certain.
HORATIO
That is a certainty.
Hamlet
Up from my cabin, My ocean-gown scarfed about me, in the dark Groped I to find out them, had my desire, Fingered their package, and in fine withdrew To mine own room again, making and so bold (My fears forgetting manners) to unseal Their 1000 commission, where I found, Horatio— O royal knavery!—an exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reasons Importing Denmark'southward wellness, and England's also, With—ho!—such bugs and goblins in my life That, on the supervise (no leisure aside, No, not to stay the grinding of the ax) My head should be struck off.
Village
I came up from my motel with my robe tied around me. In the nighttime, I groped around and establish what I was looking for. I stole Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's packet of papers, and snuck back to my cabin over again. My fears overcoming my manners, I was bold enough to open up the letter they carried from Claudius to the English language rex. Horato, there I plant—oh, purple mischief!—an explicit command, fattened up with blather well-nigh Denmark's well-being and England's too —listen!—that described all the terrors that would come from letting me live. The alphabetic character contained instructions to cutting off my head, without even taking any time to sharpen the ax.
HAMLET
[shows HORATIO a document] Here'south the commission. Read information technology at more leisure. Only wilt thou hear me how I did proceed?
HAMLET
[He shows HORATIO a document] Here's the alphabetic character. Read it when you have a moment. Just do y'all want to hear what I did side by side?
HAMLET
Being thus benetted round with villainies— Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, They had begun the play—I sat me downwards, Devised a new commission, wrote information technology off-white. I one time did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labored much How to forget that learning, but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt yard know Th' consequence of what I wrote?
Hamlet
Stuck as I was in their cruel net—before I could even fully call up about the problem, my brain had already started playing with possible solutions—I sat downwards and wrote a new letter. I wrote it in a bureaucrat'southward great handwriting. I used to think, just equally our politicians practise, that having overnice handwriting was for servants. So I had to actually work to forget that bias. And, sir, it certainly helped me and so. Would you similar to know what I wrote?
HORATIO
Ay, adept my lord.
HORATIO
Yes, my good lord.
Village
An earnest agreeableness from the male monarch, Every bit England was his faithful tributary, As beloved between them similar the palm might flourish, As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear And stand up a comma 'tween their amities, And many suchlike "as's" of peachy charge, That, on the view and knowing of these contents, Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death, Not shriving time allowed.
HAMLET
A sincere request from the King of Denmark, to the King of England—his true-blue vassal subject—with hopes that the love betwixt the 2 countries can flourish, and that peace tin can rising up and join them together in friendship, and some other important-sounding statements like that. I instructed the Male monarch of England that, after reading and reviewing the letter, without any further debate, he should immediately kill the men who delivered the letter, without even giving them time to confess to a priest.
HORATIO
How was this sealed?
HORATIO
How did you lot become an official seal on it?
Village
Why, fifty-fifty in that was sky ordinant. I had my father's signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal. Folded the writ upwardly in form of th' other, Subscribed it, gave 't th' impression, placed information technology safely, The changeling never known. Now, the next 24-hour interval Was our sea fight, and what to this was sequent Thou know'st already.
HAMLET
Fifty-fifty there, sky gave me a helping manus. I had my father's signet ring in my pocket, which has a small version of the Danish royal seal on information technology. I folded up the letter of the alphabet, signed it, sealed it, and put information technology safely back without anyone noticing the change. The next day brought our fight at sea, and you already know what happened afterwards.
HORATIO
So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz get to 't.
HORATIO
Then Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to their deaths.
HAMLET
Why, man, they did make dearest to this employment. They are not near my conscience. Their defeat Does by their ain insinuation grow. 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Betwixt the pass and fell incensèd points Of mighty opposites.
HAMLET
Well, man, they loved doing the king'southward every behest. I don't feel whatever guilt. Their deaths grew out of their meddling. It'southward dangerous when junior people get in between the sword thrusts of mighty opponents.
HORATIO
Why, what a king is this!
HORATIO
Oh, what a king this Claudius is!
Village
Does information technology not, think thee, stand up me at present upon— He that hath killed my king and whored my mother, Popped in between thursday' election and my hopes, Thrown out his bending for my proper life (And with such cozenage!) —is 't not perfect conscience To quit him with this arm? And is 't not to be damned To let this canker of our nature come In farther evil?
Hamlet
Don't y'all think that it's now my duty to impale him? He killed my king, made my mother a whore, stole the throne that I wanted, and plotted against my life with shocking trickery. Wouldn't killing him be completely justified? And, in fact, wouldn't I be damned if I were to permit this cancer live to do more than harm?
HORATIO
It must be shortly known to him from England What is the issue of the business there.
HORATIO
He's going to get the news from England presently virtually what happened there.
HAMLET
Information technology volition be short. The interim's mine. And a man'due south life's no more than to say "one." Just I am very pitiful, proficient Horatio, That to Laertes I forgot myself, For past the image of my cause I meet The portraiture of his. I'll court his favors. But sure the bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion.
Village
He will, presently. Simply I accept time before the news arrives. And information technology only takes the time to count to one to impale a man. But I practise feel very sorry, Horatio, that I lost control of myself with Laertes. I can see my own crusade for revenge mirrored in his. I'll try to win him over. But the melodramatic showiness of his grief pushed me into a fury.
HORATIO
Peace.—Who comes here?
HORATIO
Stop—who's coming in here?
OSRIC, a young courtier, enters with his hat in his mitt.
OSRIC
Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.
OSRIC
My lord, welcome back to Kingdom of denmark.
HAMLET
I humbly thank you, sir. [bated to HORATIO] Dost know this water-fly?
Hamlet
I humbly thanks, sir.
[To HORATIO and so that simply he can hear] Exercise you know this flitting fiddling bug?
HORATIO
[aside to HAMLET] No, my good lord.
HORATIO
[To HAMLET and so that only he can hear] No, my lord.
Hamlet
[aside to HORATIO] Thy state is the more gracious, for 'tis a vice to know him. He hath much land, and fertile. Let a creature exist lord of beasts and his crib shall stand at the rex'southward mess. 'Tis a chough, but, every bit I say, spacious in the possession of dirt.
Village
[To HORATIO so that but he tin can hear] You're better off for that. It's a curse to know him. He owns a lot of skilful, fertile state. Requite a beast a lot of cattle, and his nutrient trough volition be welcome at the king's table. He'southward a fool who spouts nonsense, only, equally I said, he owns a lot of dirt.
OSRIC
Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should impart a thing to you from His Majesty.
OSRIC
Sweet lord, if y'all were to have a free moment, I would similar to tell you a bulletin from His Majesty.
Village
I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of spirit. Put your bonnet to his correct utilise. 'Tis for the head.
HAMLET
Sir, I'll listen, with all of my beingness. Now put your hat to its proper use. Put it on your head.
OSRIC
I thank your lordship. Information technology is very hot.
OSRIC
Thanks for the communication, my lord. But it's very hot.
Village
No, believe me, 'tis very common cold. The wind is northerly.
HAMLET
No, believe me, it's very cold, with a northern wind.
OSRIC
It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.
OSRIC
My lord, it is quite cold, indeed.
Village
But even so methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion.
Hamlet
But however I remember information technology's too humid and hot for me.
OSRIC
Exceedingly, my lord. It is very sultry—as 'twere—I cannot tell how. My lord, his majesty bade me signify to you lot that he has laid a bang-up wager on your caput. Sir, this is the thing—
OSRIC
Exceedingly hot, sir. It is very humid—and then humid I can't even describe it. My lord, His Majesty asked me to tell you that he's placed a large bet on yous. Sir, here's what's going on—
Village
I beseech you, remember— [indicates that OSRIC should put on his chapeau]
Hamlet
I beg you, call up—[He gestures that OSRIC should put on his hat]
OSRIC
Nay, good my lord, for mine ease, in expert religion. Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes, believe me, an absolute admirer, full of well-nigh first-class differences, of very soft society and dandy showing. Indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the menu or calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the continent of what part a admirer would encounter.
OSRIC
No, my lord, I'1000 more comfortable like this, I swear. Sir, a recent arrival to the royal court named Laertes is an absolute gentleman, believe me. He is full of the most excellent qualities, with agreeable manners and proficient looks. In fact, if I were to reveal my true feelings about him, he is similar a checklist of what a admirer should be. You'll detect that he'south the embodiment of a perfect gentleman.
Village
Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you lot, though I know to divide him inventorially would dizzy th' arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. But in the verity of extolment, I take him to exist a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness equally, to make truthful diction of him, his semblable is his mirror. And who else would trace him? His umbrage, nothing more than.
HAMLET
Sir, your description of him suffers no loss of accuracy, though I know that to endeavor to describe all of his proficient qualities would dizzy the listen. And even trying to practice and so, y'all still would non be able to capture them all. Just in truthful and sincere praise, I can say that he has a soul of neat dignity, and that he is and then unique—to be honest about him—that his equal can only be found when he looks in a mirror. Anyone else is just a shadow of him.
OSRIC
Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.
OSRIC
Your lordship describes him perfectly.
HAMLET
The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath?
HAMLET
What's the relevance? Why do we wrap him up in our breathless words?
HORATIO
[bated to HAMLET] Is 't not possible to empathise in another natural language? You will do 't, sir, really.
HORATIO
[To HAMLET then that just he can hear] Y'all must speak in a different style for him to empathize you? Yous can do it, sir.
Hamlet
What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
Hamlet
What is the significance of our give-and-take of this gentleman?
HORATIO
[bated to HAMLET] His purse is empty already. All 's golden words are spent.
HORATIO
[To HAMLET and so that only he can hear] His purse is already empty. He has spent all of his golden words.
Village
Yes, of him. Of Laertes, sir.
OSRIC
I know y'all are non ignorant—
OSRIC
I know you are non ignorant—
HAMLET
I would you did, sir. Yet in organized religion, if you did, it would not much approve me. Well, sir?
HAMLET
I wish you lot did, sir. But in truth, if you did, information technology would non exist much to my credit. Well, sir?
OSRIC
You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is—
OSRIC
I know you're not ignorant about how fantabulous Laertes is—
Village
I dare not confess that lest I should compare with him in excellence, but to know a human well were to know himself.
Village
I don't cartel to admit it, because y'all might compare his excellence to mine. Simply to know excellence in some other you must know information technology in yourself.
OSRIC
I hateful, sir, for his weapon. But in the imputation laid on him by them, in his meed he'southward unfellowed.
OSRIC
I hateful, sir, he'south known for his weapon. Pop opinion holds him to exist unrivaled.
HAMLET
What's his weapon?
Village
What kind of weapon does he utilize?
OSRIC
The light sword and the dagger.
HAMLET
That'due south ii of his weapons. Only well.
HAMLET
Those are just 2 of his weapons. But no thing.
OSRIC
The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary horses, against the which he has impawned, as I take it, vi French rapiers and poniards with their assigns—as girdle, hangers, and so. Three of the carriages, in faith, are very honey to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, near delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit.
OSRIC
Sir, the king has gambled with Laertes, betting six Barbary horses confronting—as I sympathize it—6 French light swords and daggers with all their accessories. Three of the carriages, in fact, are very beautifully designed, and match the fencing accessories. Very imaginative carriages.
Village
What phone call you lot the carriages?
HAMLET
What are you calling "carriages?"
HORATIO
[aside to HAMLET] I knew you must exist edified by the margin ere you had done.
HORATIO
[To HAMLET so that only he can hear] I knew you'd have to await a word up before we were finished with him.
OSRIC
The carriages, sir, are the hangers.
OSRIC
The carriages, sir, are the hangers on which we hang swords.
HAMLET
The phrase would be more germane to the matter if we could carry cannon by our sides. I would it might be hangers till then. Just, on: 6 Barbary horses against half-dozen French swords, their assigns, and three liberal-conceited carriages—that's the French bet against the Danish. Why is this "impawned," equally you call it?
HAMLET
That word would make more sense if it were describing something that pulled a cannon. I'd prefer to call it a "hanger." Merely, yet. Six Barbary horses against six French swords with accessories, and three imaginatively designed carriages—sounds like a French bet against the Danish. Why has all this been "gambled," as yous put it?
OSRIC
The king, sir, hath laid that in a dozen passes between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you iii hits. He hath laid on twelve for nine, and it would come to immediate trial if your lordship would vouchsafe the answer.
OSRIC
Sir, the rex has bet that in a dozen rounds betwixt you lot and Laertes, he won't beat you past more than than iii hits. We could starting time the friction match immediately if you'll practice me the award of giving me your answer.
Village
How if I answer "No"?
Village
What if my answer is "no?"
OSRIC
I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial.
OSRIC
I mean, my lord, if you'd concord to compete in the wager.
HAMLET
Sir, I will walk here in the hall. If it please His Majesty, 'tis the animate time of 24-hour interval with me. Let the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the king concord his purpose. I will win for him an I tin. If not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.
Village
Sir, I'm going to have a walk in the hall. Tell the king that it is my time to exercise. If the king still wants to practise this, and if Laertes is willing, tell them to bring in the swords. I'll win the male monarch's bet for him if I can. If not, I'll have suffered only a bit of shame for losing, and a few sword hits.
OSRIC
Shall I redeliver yous e'en so?
OSRIC
Shall I quote yous with those precise words?
HAMLET
To this consequence, sir, after what flourish your nature volition.
HAMLET
Just get the meaning beyond, sir. And exist as flowery as you desire in doing it.
OSRIC
I commend my duty to your lordship.
OSRIC
I am at your service, your lordship.
HAMLET
He does well to commend it himself. There are no tongues else for 's turn.
HAMLET
He's smart to recommend himself. There'south no one else who'd do it for him.
HORATIO
This lapwing runs away with the beat on his caput.
HORATIO
That fool looks similar a newly hatched bird running around with its egg withal on its head.
Village
He did comply, sir, with his dug before he sucked it. Thus has he—and many more of the aforementioned bevy that I know the drossy historic period dotes on—only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter, a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them through and through the nearly fond and winnowed opinions; and do just blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out.
HAMLET
He used to shower flowery praise on his mother'due south nipple before he sucked it. In that style he—and so many others in this frivolous age—follow the fashionable way of talking. It'due south a kind of wispy drove of words through which he can express the most trendy opinions. Merely blow a piffling on these ideas to test them, and they'll burst.
LORD
My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young Osric, who brings back to him that you nourish him in the hall. He sends to know if your pleasance hold to play with Laertes, or that you lot volition accept longer fourth dimension.
LORD
My lord, His Majesty has learned from Osric that you will before long come to the main hall. The king would similar to know if you would like to duel against Laertes now, or if you lot'd like a little more fourth dimension.
HAMLET
I am constant to my purpose. They follow the king's pleasance. If his fettle speaks, mine is prepare, now or whensoever, provided I be then able as at present.
Hamlet
I'll exercise every bit I said earlier: whatever the king wants. If he'due south ready at present, so am I. If he prefers another time, I'll practice information technology then, and then long every bit I'thousand able.
LORD
The king and queen and all are coming down.
LORD
The rex and queen are coming down with everyone else to watch.
HAMLET
And right on time, too.
LORD
The queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play.
LORD
The queen would like you to speak a few polite words to Laertes before the match begins.
Village
She well instructs me.
HAMLET
Her advice is adept.
HORATIO
You volition lose this wager, my lord.
HORATIO
You're going to lose this bet, my lord.
HAMLET
I exercise non call up then. Since he went into France, I have been in continual practice. I shall win at the odds. Simply one thousand wouldst not think how sick all'due south hither about my centre. Only information technology is no matter.
Hamlet
I don't think so. Since Laertes left, I've been practicing fencing constantly. With the odds they've given me, I'thou going to win. But yet, I accept a bad feeling in my heart. But forget nigh that.
HORATIO
Nay, expert my lord—
Village
It is but foolery, only it is such a kind of gain-giving every bit would perhaps problem a woman.
Hamlet
It's just foolishness, simply I have the kind of misgiving that might carp a woman.
HORATIO
If your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will forestall their repair hither and say yous are non fit.
HORATIO
If your conscience is telling you non to do this, obey it. I'll go and stop them and say y'all're not feeling well.
HAMLET
Not a whit. We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come up, it volition be at present. If information technology be not now, notwithstanding information technology will come—the readiness is all. Since no man of zilch he leaves knows, what is 't to leave betimes? Let exist.
Village
You will not. I ignore omens. God controls everything—even the death of a sparrow. If I am to die now, then information technology will non be later. If I am to die later, then information technology will not be now. All that matters is existence set for it when it does happen. Since no homo knows about what he leaves backside when he dies, and then what's information technology to him if he leaves early on? Let information technology be.
CLAUDIUS enters with GERTRUDE, LAERTES, OSRIC, lords, and other attendants with trumpets, drums, fencing swords, a table, and pitchers of wine.
CLAUDIUS
Come up, Hamlet, come, and accept this hand from me. [puts LAERTES' hand into Hamlet'due south]
CLAUDIUS
Come, Hamlet, shake easily with Laertes. [CLAUDIUS places LAERTES' and Village'due south hands together]
HAMLET
Give me your pardon, sir. I've washed you wrong. Simply pardon 't, as you are a gentleman. This presence knows, And you must needs take heard, how I am punished With sore distraction. What I have done, That might your nature, honour, and exception Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. Was 't Hamlet wronged Laertes? Never Hamlet. If Hamlet from himself exist ta'en away, And when he's non himself does incorrect Laertes, So Hamlet does it not. Hamlet denies information technology. Who does it, then? His madness. If't be then, Hamlet is of the faction that is wronged. His madness is poor Hamlet'due south enemy. Sir, in this audience, Allow my disclaiming from a purposed evil Gratis me and so far in your most generous thoughts That I have shot mine pointer o'er the house And hurt my brother.
HAMLET
I ask your forgiveness, sir. I've done yous wrong. Forgive me, as a gentleman. Anybody here knows—and y'all must have heard it too—that I'm suffering from insanity. What I did to insult your nature and your award, I did only out of madness. Was it Village who insulted Laertes? Non Village. If Hamlet has had his mind stolen, and insults Laertes when he's not himself, and so it is not Village who did it. Who did it, then? Hamlet's madness. If that's true, then it'due south Hamlet who was the victim. His madness is his enemy. Sir, with this audience every bit my witness, let me declare that I intended no harm and am as innocent as a man who shoots an arrow over his house and accidentally hits his brother.
LAERTES
I am satisfied in nature, Whose motive in this case should stir me most To my revenge. But in my terms of honor I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement Till past some elder masters, of known award, I have a voice and precedent of peace To keep my name ungored. But till that time I do receive your offered love like love And will not wrong it.
LAERTES
My personal feelings are satisfied—even though what you've washed should stir them to seek revenge. Notwithstanding, equally a man who values honor, I must for now hold off and will non accept an apology—until some experts in matters of honor show me that accepting your apology volition non stain my reputation. Until then, I have the honey you offer as beloved, and won't practice annihilation to offend it.
Hamlet
I encompass it freely, And will this brother's wager frankly play.— Give us the foils. Come on.
Hamlet
I take information technology gladly, and will appoint in this friendly match without reservations. Come on, give me a sword.
LAERTES
Come up, one for me.
HAMLET
I'll be your foil, Laertes. In mine ignorance Your skill shall, like a star i' th' darkest night, Stick peppery off indeed.
Hamlet
I'm going to make you look good, Laertes. My lack of skill will brand yours blaze like the brightest star in the darkest night.
LAERTES
You mock me, sir.
LAERTES
You're making fun of me, sir.
HAMLET
No, I swear by my hand.
CLAUDIUS
Give them the foils, immature Osric.—Cousin Village, You know the wager?
CLAUDIUS
Give them the swords, Osric. Village, you know the bet?
Village
Very well, my lord. Your grace hath laid the odds o' thursday' weaker side.
Hamlet
Very well, my lord. You've placed your bet on the weaker side.
CLAUDIUS
I practise non fear it. I have seen yous both. Merely since he is better we have therefore odds.
CLAUDIUS
I'm not worried. I've seen both of yous fence. But since Laertes is better, nosotros've given him a handicap.
LAERTES
[tests a rapier] This is too heavy. Permit me come across another.
LAERTES
[He tests a sword] This sword'south too heavy. Requite me another one.
HAMLET
[tests a rapier] This likes me well. These foils accept all a length?
Village
[He tests a sword] This ane is good for me. Are they all the same length?
Village and LAERTES prepare to fence.
CLAUDIUS
Ready me the stoups of wine upon that table. If Village requite the start or second hit Or quit in answer of the 3rd exchange, Let all the battlements their ordnance fire! The king shall drink to Village's better breath, And in the loving cup an union shall he throw Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark'southward crown have worn. Give me the cups. And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, The trumpet to the cannoneer without, The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to globe, "Now the king dunks to Hamlet." Come up, begin.— And y'all, the judges, behave a wary middle.
CLAUDIUS
Put the cups of wine on that table. If Hamlet gets the starting time or second hit, or even responds to Laertes challenge by only making the third hit, then nosotros will fire the cannons in his honor! I'll then drink to Hamlet'southward health, and into his cup I'll drop a pearl more than valuable than those the final four Danish kings worn in their crowns. Requite me the cups. Play the pulsate to signal the trumpeter, so the trumpet will bespeak the cannons outside, and the cannons will bespeak the heavens, and the heavens volition echo the sound in society to tell all the earth that the king now drinks to Hamlet's health. Come on, begin. And y'all, judges, watch advisedly.
Hamlet and LAERTES contend.
OSRIC
A hitting, a very palpable hit.
OSRIC
It was a striking, a articulate hit.
LAERTES
Well, some other round.
CLAUDIUS
Stay, requite me beverage.—Village, this pearl is thine. Here's to thy health.
CLAUDIUS
Requite me some wine.
[To HAMLET] Hamlet, this pearl is yours. Here'south to your health.
CLAUDIUS drops the pearl into a cup.
Drums, trumpets sound, shot goes off
CLAUDIUS
Give him the cup.
CLAUDIUS
Give him the cup.
HAMLET
I'll play this tour first. Set it by a while. Come.
Hamlet
I'll finish this round showtime. Set up the cup down for a while. Let's go.
HAMLET and LAERTES contend.
Hamlet
Some other striking. What say you?
Village
Some other hit. What do yous say?
LAERTES
A touch, a touch, I practice confess 't.
LAERTES
Information technology was a small hitting, a small hit, I admit information technology.
CLAUDIUS
Our son shall win.
GERTRUDE
He's fatty, and scant of breath.— Hither, Hamlet, have my napkin, rub thy brows. The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet. [picks up the cup with the pearl]
GERTRUDE
He's fat and out of jiff.
[To HAMLET] Here, Hamlet, take my handkerchief and wipe the sweat from your forehead. The queen drinks to your good luck, Hamlet. [She lifts the cup with the pearl]
CLAUDIUS
Gertrude, do not drinkable.
CLAUDIUS
Gertrude, don't drink.
GERTRUDE
I volition, my lord. I pray you, pardon me. [drinks]
GERTRUDE
I will drinkable, my lord. Delight excuse me. [She drinks]
CLAUDIUS
[aside] It is the poisoned cup. It is too late.
CLAUDIUS
[To himself] That was the poisoned beverage. It's too late.
HAMLET
I cartel not potable notwithstanding, madam. By and by.
HAMLET
I can't afford to drinkable now, madam. Shortly.
GERTRUDE
Come, permit me wipe thy face.
GERTRUDE
Come on, permit me wipe your confront.
LAERTES
[aside to CLAUDIUS] My lord, I'll hit him now.
LAERTES
[To CLAUDIUS and so that only he tin can hear] I'll hit him now.
CLAUDIUS
I practise not recollect 't.
LAERTES
[aside] And still it is almost 'gainst my conscience.
LAERTES
[To himself] And yet, it almost makes me feel guilty.
Hamlet
Come, for the third, Laertes. You do simply dally. I pray y'all, laissez passer with your best violence. I am afeard you make a wanton of me.
Village
Come for the third circular, Laertes. Yous're just playing. Come on, endeavour your hardest. I fear that yous're treating me like a spoiled child.
LAERTES
Say you then? Come on.
LAERTES
You believe and then? Come on.
HAMLET and LAERTES fence.
OSRIC
Cipher, neither manner.
OSRIC
There's little departure between them.
LAERTES wounds Village. They scuffle and terminate upwardly with each other's swords. Hamlet wounds LAERTES.
CLAUDIUS
Part them! They are incensed.
CLAUDIUS
Separate them. They're likewise angry.
HAMLET
No, come up on, again.
OSRIC
Look to the queen in that location, ho!
OSRIC
Hey! Take intendance of the queen!
HORATIO
They drain on both sides.—How is it, my lord?
HORATIO
Both fencers are bleeding.
[To HAMLET] How are you, my lord?
OSRIC
How is 't, Laertes?
OSRIC
How are y'all, Laertes?
LAERTES
Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric. I am justly killed with mine own treachery. [falls]
LAERTES
Why, I'm like a bird defenseless in my own trap, Osric. [He collapses] I've been killed by my own betrayal, as I deserve.
Hamlet
How does the queen?
Village
How is the queen doing?
CLAUDIUS
She swoons to meet them bleed.
CLAUDIUS
She fainted at the sight of them bleeding.
GERTRUDE
No, no, the drink, the drink!—O my love Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poisoned. [dies]
GERTRUDE
No, no! The drink, the drinkable! Oh, my dear Village! The drink, the drinkable! I've been poisoned. [She dies]
HAMLET
O villainy! Ho, let the door exist locked.
HAMLET
Oh, what evil! Hey, lock the door!
HAMLET
Treachery! Seek information technology out.
HAMLET
We've been betrayed! Notice the traitor.
LAERTES
It is hither, Village. Hamlet, thou fine art slain. No medicine in the globe tin can practise thee skillful. In thee at that place is not half an hr of life. The treacherous instrument is in thy manus, Unbated and envenomed. The foul practise Hath turned itself on me. Lo, here I prevarication, Never to rise once again. Thy mother's poisoned. I can no more. The rex, the king'southward to blame.
LAERTES
It's me, Hamlet. Hamlet, yous're dead. No medicine in the globe tin cure you. You don't take more than a half hour left to live. The treacherous weapon is in your hand, sharpened and dipped in poison. The dirty programme backfired on me. And so, hither I lie, never to rise again. Your female parent'southward been poisoned. I can't say anymore. The king, the male monarch's to blame.
HAMLET
The point envenomed too!—Then, venom, to thy work.
HAMLET
The sword is poisoned! Then, poison, do your job!
CLAUDIUS
O, yet defend me, friends. I am but hurt.
CLAUDIUS
Oh, defend me, my friends. I've only been hurt.
HAMLET
Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damnèd Dane, Drink off this potion. Is thy union hither? Follow my female parent.
HAMLET
Here, you incestuous, murderous, damned Dane! Beverage this poisoned vino. Is your pearl in there? Follow my mother.
HAMLET forces CLAUDIUS to drink. CLAUDIUS dies.
LAERTES
He is justly served. It is a toxicant tempered past himself. Substitution forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Mine and my father's death come up not upon thee, Nor thine on me. [dies]
LAERTES
He got what he deserved. He fabricated that poison himself. Forgive me every bit I forgive you, noble Village. My death and my father's death are not your fault, and my decease is non yours. [He dies]
HAMLET
Heaven make thee free of it. I follow thee.— I am dead, Horatio. —Wretched queen, adieu!— Y'all that look pale and tremble at this chance, That are just mutes or audience to this deed, Had I only time (equally this savage sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest), O, I could tell you lot— But permit it be. —Horatio, I am dead. Thou livest. Report me and my cause aright To the unsatisfied.
Hamlet
God frees you from arraign. I'll follow you lot.
[To HORATIO] I'm expressionless, Horatio.
[To GERTRUDE] Unlucky queen, goodbye.
[To the others] You who watch, stake and trembling—a speechless audition to this evidence—if I had just a little fourth dimension, I could tell you things. Merely this dread officer, Death, allows no mercy or extra time. Let it be.
[To HORATIO] Horatio, I'thou dying. Yous live on. Tell my story and my cause to anybody.
HORATIO
Never believe it. I am more an antique Roman than a Dane. Here's still some liquor left. [lifts the poisoned cup]
HORATIO
Don't believe it. I'm more than like an aboriginal Roman than a Dane. There's still some of this vino. [He picks up the poisoned loving cup]
Hamlet
Every bit yard'rt a human, Give me the cup. Let become! By heaven, I'll have 't. [takes cup from HORATIO] O God, Horatio, what a wounded proper name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! If grand didst ever hold me in thy heart Absent thee from felicity a while, And in this harsh globe draw thy jiff in pain To tell my story.
Hamlet
On your manhood, give me that loving cup. Permit information technology go! By heaven, give it to me. [He takes the cup from HORATIO] Oh God, Horatio, what a bad reputation I'm leaving backside—because no ane knows what happened. If you ever loved me, so avoid the sugariness relief of expiry for a while, and stay in this harsh world long enough to describe painful breaths and tell my story.
A armed forces march plays offstage.
Hamlet
What warlike dissonance is this?
HAMLET
What are these sounds of war?
OSRIC
Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland, To thursday' ambassadors of England gives This warlike volley.
OSRIC
Immature Fortinbras returns triumphantly from Poland, and fires his cannons to greet the English ambassadors.
HAMLET
O, I die, Horatio. The stiff poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England. But I do prophesy the election lights On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice. And so tell him, with thursday' occurrents, more and less, Which have solicited. The rest is silence. O, O, O, O. [dies]
Hamlet
Oh, I'm dying, Horatio! This powerful poison is too much for me. I won't live to hear the news from England. But I predict that Fortinbras will win the election for the Danish crown. I give him my dying vote. So tell him what has happened here. The rest is silence. Oh, oh, oh, oh. [He dies]
HORATIO
Now cracks a noble eye.—Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!— Why does the pulsate come up hither?
HORATIO
Now a noble heart breaks. Good night, sweet prince. May hosts of angels sing you to your sleep. Why are those drums coming about?
FORTINBRAS and the English AMBASSADOR enter, with a drummer and attendants.
FORTINBRAS
Where is this sight?
FORTINBRAS
What am I seeing?
HORATIO
What is information technology ye would run across? If nada of woe or wonder, terminate your search.
HORATIO
What would you lot like to see? If information technology'due south a tragedy or other astonishment, you've plant information technology.
FORTINBRAS
This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death, What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, That thou so many princes at a shot Then bloodily hast struck?
FORTINBRAS
These corpses suggest a massacre. Oh, proud Death, what banquet are yous preparing that you've struck down then many princes at once?
AMBASSADOR
The sight is dismal, And our affairs from England come as well late. The ears 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?
AMBASSADOR
This is an awful sight. Our news arrives from England likewise late. The people who were meant to hear information technology are all dead. We came to tell the king his orders have been followed: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Who will thank us now?
HORATIO
[indicates CLAUDIUS] Not from his rima oris, Had it thursday' ability of life to thank you lot. He never gave commandment for their expiry. But since so leap upon this encarmine question, You lot from the Polack wars, and yous from England, Are hither arrived, give guild that these bodies Loftier on a phase exist placèd to the view, And let me speak to th' nonetheless-unknowing world How these things came most. So shall y'all hear Of lecherous, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th' inventors' heads. All this can I Truly deliver.
HORATIO
[He points to CLAUDIUS] Not him, even if he were still live to thank you. He never ordered their deaths. But since you've arrived to meet this bloody scene—you from the state of war in Poland and y'all from England—then order that these bodies be displayed on a loftier platform to be viewed, and let me tell the globe how all this happened. You lot'll hear of violent, encarmine, and unnatural acts; accidental revenge; casual murders; deaths caused by trickery and by threat; and plans that backfired on their inventors. All this I will tell yous truthfully.
FORTINBRAS
Let us haste to hear it, And telephone call the noblest to the audience. For me, with sorrow I cover my fortune. I have some rights of retention in this kingdom, Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.
FORTINBRAS
Let usa hurry to listen to it now, and phone call in all the noblemen equally audience. As for me, I take my practiced fortune with sadness. I take some rights to claim the throne of this kingdom, and now I have the hazard to brand that claim.
HORATIO
Of that I shall have also crusade to speak, And from his mouth whose voice volition draw on more. Merely let this same be presently performed, Even while men's minds are wild, lest more mischance On plots and errors happen.
HORATIO
I likewise take much to say well-nigh that, from the mouth of 1 who only added to your claim. Let'south do this now, even though everyone'southward minds are racing, to make sure no farther mistakes, plots, or errors occur.
FORTINBRAS
Permit 4 captains Bear Village similar a soldier to the stage, For he was likely, had he been put on, To take proved virtually royally. And, for his passage, The soldiers' music and the rites of war Speak loudly for him. Take up the bodies. Such a sight every bit this Becomes the field, simply here shows much amiss. Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
FORTINBRAS
Allow four captains carry Hamlet like a soldier to the viewing platform. If he but had the gamble, it's likely he would have been a great king. Military music and military rites shall proclaim his greatness. Lift upwardly the bodies. A sight similar this looks correct on a battlefield, but hither shows that much has gone wrong. Get, tell the soldiers to fire their cannons.
They exit marching, carrying the bodies, every bit cannons burn.
Source: https://www.litcharts.com/shakescleare/shakespeare-translations/hamlet/act-5-scene-2
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