The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
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As harbindgers preceading still the fates;
As starres with traines of fier, and dewes of blood (Here understand _precede_) Disasters in the sunne; The tenth will close with the twelfth line well enough. But no one, any more than myself, will be _satisfied_ with the suggestion. The probability is, of course, that a line has dropped out between the fifth and sixth. Anything like this would restore the connection: _The labouring heavens themselves teemed dire portent_ As starres &c.] [Page 12] Ile crosse it, though it blast me.[1] Stay Illusion:[2] [Sidenote: _It[4] spreads his armes_.] If thou hast any sound, or vse of Voyce,[3] Speake to me. If there be any good thing to be done, That may to thee do ease, and grace to me; speak to me. If thou art priuy to thy Countries Fate (Which happily foreknowing may auoyd) Oh speake. Or, if thou hast vp-hoorded in thy life Extorted Treasure in the wombe of Earth, (For which, they say, you Spirits oft walke in death) [Sidenote: your] [Sidenote: _The cocke crowes_] Speake of it. Stay, and speake. Stop it _Marcellus_. |
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