nder, 'Angelo may punish in my name, but, not being present, I
shall not be accused of cruelty, which would be to slander my nature.']

[Footnote 22: _his_--the man's; see _note_ 13 above.]

[Page 46]

[Sidenote: 112] Be thy euents wicked or charitable,
[Sidenote: thy intent]
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape[1]
That I will speake to thee. Ile call thee _Hamlet_,[2]
King, Father, Royall Dane: Oh, oh, answer me,
[Sidenote: Dane, o answere]
Let me not burst in Ignorance; but tell
Why thy Canoniz'd bones Hearsed in death,[3]
Haue burst their cerments; why the Sepulcher
Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn'd,[4]
[Sidenote: quietly interr'd[3]]
Hath op'd his ponderous and Marble iawes,
To cast thee vp againe? What may this meane?
That thou dead Coarse againe in compleat steele,
Reuisits thus the glimpses of the Moone,
Making Night hidious? And we fooles of Nature,[6]
So horridly to shake our disposition,[7]
With thoughts beyond thee; reaches of our Soules,[8]
[Sidenote: the reaches]
Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we doe?[9]

_Ghost beckens Hamlet._

_Hor._ It beckons you to goe away with it, [Sidenote: Beckins]
As if it some impartment did desire
To you alone.

_Mar._ Looke with what courteous action
It wafts you to a more remoued ground: [Sidenote: waues]
But doe not goe with it.

_Hor._ No, by no meanes.

_Ham_. It will not speake: then will I follow it.
[Sidenote: I will]

_Hor._ Doe not my Lord.

_Ham._ Why, what should be the feare?
I doe not set my life at a pins fee;
And for my Soule, what can it doe to that?
Being a thing immortall as it selfe:[10]
It waues me forth againe; Ile follow it.

_Hor._ What if it tempt you toward the Floud my Lord?[11]

[Footnote 1: --that of his father, so moving him to question it.
_Questionable_ does not mean _doubtful_, but _fit to be questioned_.]

[Footnote 2: 'I'll _call_ thee'--for the nonce.]

[Footnote 3: I think _hearse_ was originally the bier--French _herse_, a
harrow--but came to be applied to the coffin: _hearsed_ in
death--_coffined_ in death.]

[Footnote 4: There is no impropriety in the use of the word _inurned_.
It is a figure--a word once-removed in its application: the