h to-night?

Mar. Ber. We do, my lord.

Ham. Arm'd, say you?

Mar. Ber. Arm'd, my lord.

Ham. From top to toe?

Mar. Ber. My lord, from head to foot.

Ham. Then saw you not his face?

Hor. Oh, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up.

Ham. What, look'd he frowningly?

Hor. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

Ham. Pale or red?

Hor. Nay, very pale.

Ham. And fix'd his eyes upon you?

Hor. Most constantly.

Ham. I would I had been there.

Hor. It would have much amazed you.

Ham. Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?

Hor. While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.

Mar. Ber. Longer, longer.

Hor. Not when I saw't.

Ham. His beard was grizzled,--no?

Hor. It was, as I have seen it in his life,
A sable silver'd.

Ham. I will watch to-night;
Perchance 't will walk again.

Hor. I warrant it will.

Ham. If it assume my noble father's person,
I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape
And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still;
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
Give it an understanding, but no tongue:
I will requite your loves. So, fare you well:
Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,
I'll visit you.

DEFINITIONS.--Tru'ant, wandering from business, loitering. Trust'er, a
believer. At-tent', attentive, heedful. De-liv'er, to communicate, to
utter. Cap-a-pie' (from the French, pro. kap-a-pee'), from head to foot.
Trun'cheon (pro. trun'shun), a short staff, a baton. Bea'ver, a part of
the helmet covering the face, so constructed that the wearer could raise
or lower it. Ten'a-ble, capable of being held.

NOTES.--What make you from Wittenberg? i.e., what are you doing away from
Wittenberg?

Wittenberg is a university town in Saxony, where Hamlet and Horatio had
been schoolfellows.

Elsinore is a fortified town on one of the Danish islands, and was
formerly the seat of one of the royal castles. It is the scene of
Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

Hard upon; i.e., soon after.

Funeral baked meats. This has reference to the ancient custom of funeral
feasts.

My dearest foe; i.e., my greatest foe. A common use of the word "dearest"
in Shakespeare's time.

Or ever, i.e., before.

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