y Lord, from head to foote. [Sidenote: _All_.]
_Ham_. Then saw you not his face?
_Hor_. O yes, my Lord, he wore his Beauer vp.
_Ham_. What, lookt he frowningly?
[Sidenote: 54,174] _Hor_. A countenance more in sorrow then in anger.[1]
[Sidenote: 120] _Ham_. Pale, or red?
_Hor_. Nay very pale.
[Footnote 1: The mood of the Ghost thus represented, remains the same
towards his wife throughout the play.]
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_Ham._ And fixt his eyes vpon you?
_Hor._ Most constantly.
_Ham._ I would I had beene there.
_Hor._ It would haue much amaz'd you.
_Ham._ Very like, very like: staid it long? [Sidenote: Very like, stayd]
_Hor._ While one with moderate hast might tell a hundred.
[Sidenote: hundreth]
_All._ Longer, longer. [Sidenote: _Both._]
_Hor._ Not when I saw't.
_Ham._ His Beard was grisly?[1] no. [Sidenote: grissl'd]
_Hor._ It was, as I haue seene it in his life,
[Sidenote: 138] A Sable[2] Siluer'd.
_Ham._ Ile watch to Night; perchance 'twill wake againe.
[Sidenote: walke againe.]
_Hor._ I warrant you it will. [Sidenote: warn't it]
[Sidenote: 44] _Ham._ If it assume my noble Fathers person,[3]
Ile speake to it, though Hell it selfe should gape
And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
If you haue hitherto conceald this sight;
Let it bee treble[5] in your silence still: [Sidenote: be tenable in[4]]
And whatsoeuer els shall hap to night, [Sidenote: what someuer els]
Giue it an vnderstanding but no tongue;
I will requite your loues; so, fare ye well: [Sidenote: farre you]
Vpon the Platforme twixt eleuen and twelue,
[Sidenote: a leauen and twelfe]
Ile visit you.
_All._ Our duty to your Honour. _Exeunt._
_Ham._ Your loue, as mine to you: farewell. [Sidenote: loves,]
My Fathers Spirit in Armes?[6] All is not well:
[Sidenote: 30,52] I doubt some foule play: would the Night were come;
Till then sit still my soule; foule deeds will rise,
[Sidenote: fonde deedes]
Though all the earth orewhelm them to mens eies.
_Exit._
[Footnote 1: _grisly_--gray; _grissl'd_--turned gray;--mixed with
white.]
[Footnote 2: The colour of sable-fur, I think.]
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