: he
forgives and desires forgiveness.]

[Footnote 11: _Not in Quarto._]

[Footnote 12: Note how heartily Hamlet pardons the wrong done to
himself--the only wrong of course which a man has to pardon.]

[Footnote 13: _supernumeraries_. Note the other figures too--_audience,
act_--all of the theatre.]

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But let it be: _Horatio_, I am dead,
Thou liu'st, report me and my causes right [Sidenote: cause a right]
To the vnsatisfied.[1]

_Hor_. Neuer beleeue it.
[Sidenote: 134] I am more an Antike Roman then a Dane:
[Sidenote: 135] Heere's yet some Liquor left.[2]

_Ham_. As th'art a man, giue me the Cup.
Let go, by Heauen Ile haue't. [Sidenote: hate,]
[Sidenote: 114, 251] Oh good _Horatio_, what a wounded name,[3]
[Sidenote: O god _Horatio_,]
(Things standing thus vnknowne) shall liue behind me.
[Sidenote: shall I leaue behind me?]
If thou did'st euer hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicitie awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in paine,[1]
[Sidenote: _A march a farre off._]
To tell my Storie.[4]
_March afarre off, and shout within._[5]
What warlike noyse is this?

_Enter Osricke._

_Osr_. Yong _Fortinbras_, with conquest come from Poland
To th'Ambassadors of England giues this warlike volly.[6]

_Ham_. O I dye _Horatio_:
The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit,
I cannot liue to heare the Newes from England,
[Sidenote: 62] But I do prophesie[7] th'election lights
[Sidenote: 276] On _Fortinbras_, he ha's my dying voyce,[8]
So tell him with the occurrents more and lesse,[9] [Sidenote: th']
Which haue solicited.[10] The rest is silence. O, o, o, o.[11]
_Dyes_[12]

_Hora_. Now cracke a Noble heart: [Sidenote: cracks a]
Goodnight sweet Prince,
And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest,
Why do's the Drumme come hither?

[Footnote 1: His care over his reputation with the people is princely,
and casts a true light on his delay. No good man can be willing to seem
bad, except the _being good_ necessitates it. A man must be willing to
appear a villain if that is the consequence of being a true man, but he
cannot be indifferent to that appearance. He cannot be indifferent to
wearing the look of the thing he hates. Hamlet, that he may be
understood by the nation,