l he throw,[72]
Richer than that which four successive kings
In Denmark's crown have worn.

[Pages _return with wine._]

Give me the cup;
And let the kettle[73] to the trumpet speak,
The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,
_Now the king drinks to Hamlet._--Come, begin;
And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.

_Ham._ Come on, sir.

_Laer._ Come, my lord.

[_They play._]

_Ham._ One.

_Laer._ No.

_Ham._ Judgment.

_Osr._ A hit, a very palpable hit.

_Laer._ Well:--again.

_King._ Stay; give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;

[_Drops poison into the goblet._]

Here's to thy health.

[_Pretends to drink._]
[_Trumpets sound; and cannon shot off within._]

Give him the cup.

_Ham._ I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile.

[Page _places the goblet on table_, L.]

Come.
Another hit; What say you?

[_They play._]

_Laer._ A touch, a touch, I do confess.

_King._ Our son shall win.

_Queen._ The Queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.[74]

_Ham._ Good madam!----

[_Trumpets sound._]

_King._ Gertrude, do not drink.

_Queen._ I have, my lord; I pray you, pardon me.

_King._ It is the poison'd cup; it is too late.

[_Aside._]

_Laer._ I'll hit him now
And yet it is almost against my conscience.

[_Aside._]

_Ham._ Come, for the third, Laertes: You do but dally;
I pray you, pass with your best violence;
I am afeard you make a wanton of me.[75]

_Laer._ Say you so? come on.

[_They play._]

[LAERTES _wounds_ HAMLET; _then, in scuffling they change
Rapiers, and_ HAMLET _wounds_ LAERTES.]

_King._ Part them; they are incensed.

_Ham._ Nay, come, again.

[_The_ QUEEN _falls back in her chair._]

_Osr._

(_Supporting_ LAERTES, R.)

Look to the queen there, ho!

_Hor._

(_Supporting_ HAMLET, L.)

How is it, my lord?

_Osr._ How is't, Laertes?

_Laer._ Why, as a woodcock to my own springe,[76] Osric;
I am justly killed with mine own treachery.

_Ham._ How does the queen?

_King._ She swoons to see them bleed.

_Queen._ No, no, the drink, the drink,--O, my dear Hamlet,--
The