t! But
note also his honesty, his justice to humanity, his philosophic
temperament, in the qualification he sets to the memorandum, '--at least
in Denmark!']

[Footnote 7: 'my word,'--the word he has to keep in mind; his cue.]

[Footnote 8: Should not the actor here make a pause, with hand uplifted,
as taking a solemn though silent oath?]

[Footnote 9: --as if calling to a hawk.]

[Footnote 10: Here comes the test of the actor's _possible_: here Hamlet
himself begins to act, and will at once assume a _role_, ere yet he well
knows what it must be. One thing only is clear to him--that the
communication of the Ghost is not a thing to be shared--that he must
keep it with all his power of secrecy: the honour both of father and of
mother is at stake. In order to do so, he must begin by putting on
himself a cloak of darkness, and hiding his feelings--first of all the
present agitation which threatens to overpower him. His immediate
impulse or instinctive motion is to force an air, and throw a veil of
grimmest humour over the occurrence. The agitation of the horror at his
heart, ever working and constantly repressed, shows through the veil,
and gives an excited uncertainty to his words, and a wild vacillation to
his manner and behaviour.]

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_Both_. I, by Heau'n, my Lord.[1]

_Ham_. There's nere a villaine dwelling in all Denmarke
But hee's an arrant knaue.

_Hor_. There needs no Ghost my Lord, come from the
Graue, to tell vs this.

_Ham_. Why right, you are i'th'right; [Sidenote: in the]
And so, without more circumstance at all,
I hold it fit that we shake hands, and part:
You, as your busines and desires shall point you: [Sidenote: desire]
For euery man ha's businesse and desire,[2] [Sidenote: hath]
Such as it is: and for mine owne poore part, [Sidenote: my]
Looke you, Ile goe pray.[4] [Sidenote: I will goe pray.[3]]

_Hor_. These are but wild and hurling words, my Lord.
[Sidenote: whurling[5]]

_Ham_. I'm sorry they offend you heartily: [Sidenote: I am]
Yes faith, heartily.

_Hor_. There's no offence my Lord.

_Ham_. Yes, by Saint _Patricke_, but there is my Lord,[6]
[Sidenote: there is _Horatio_]
And much offence too, touching this Vision heere;[7]
[Sidenote: 136] It is an honest Ghost, that let me tell you:[8]
For your desire to know wh