Seventh Soliloquy (What is a Man?) IV. iv. 8-66 -- 2743+1-274 2743+1 {Enter Hamlet, Rosencraus, &c.} 2743+2 {Ham. Good sir whose powers are these?} 2743+3 {Cap. They are of Norway sir.} 2743+4 {Ham. How purposd sir I pray you?} 2743+5 {Cap. Against some part of Poland.} 2743+6 {Ham. Who commaunds them sir?} 2743+7 {Cap. The Nephew to old Norway, Fortenbrasse.} 2743+8 {Ham. Goes it against the maine of Poland sir,} 2743+9 {Or for some frontire?} 2743+10 {Cap. Truly to speake, and with no addition,} 2743+11 {We goe to gaine a little patch of ground} 2743+12 {That hath in it no profit but the name} 2743+13 {To pay fiue duckets, fiue I would not farme it;} 2743+14 {Nor will it yeeld to Norway or the Pole} 2743+15 {A rancker rate, should it be sold in fee.} 2743+16 {Ham. Why then the Pollacke neuer will defend it.} 2743+17 {Cap. Yes, it is already garisond.} 2743+18 {Ham. Two thousand soules, & twenty thousand duckets} 2743+19 {VVill not debate the question of this straw,} 2743+20 {This is th'Imposthume of much wealth and peace,} 2743+21 {That inward breakes, and showes no cause without} 2743+22 {Why the man dies. I humbly thanke you sir.} 2743+23 {Cap. God buy you sir.} 2743+24 {Ros. Wil't please you goe my Lord?} 2743+25 {Ham. Ile be with you straight, goe a little before.} 2743+26 {How all occasions doe informe against me,} 2743+27 {K3v} {And spur my dull reuenge. What is a man} 2743+28 {If his chiefe good and market of his time} 2743+29 {Be but to sleepe and feede, a beast, no more:} 2743+30 {Sure he that made vs with such large discourse} 2743+31 {Looking before and after, gaue vs not} 2743+32 {That capabilitie and god-like reason} 2743+33 {To fust in vs vnvsd, now whether it be} 2743+34 {Bestiall obliuion, or some crauen scruple} 2743+35 {Of thinking too precisely on th'euent,} 2743+36 {A thought which quarterd hath but one part wisedom,} 2743+37 {And euer three parts coward, I doe not know} 2743+38 {Why yet I liue to say this thing's to doe,} 2743+39 {Sith I haue cause, and will, and strength, and meanes} 2743+40 {To doo't; examples grosse as earth exhort me,} 2743+41 {Witnes this Army of such masse and charge,} 2743+42 {Led by a delicate and tender Prince,} 2743+43 {Whose spirit with diuine ambition puft,} 2743+44 {Makes mouthes at the invisible euent,} 2743+45 {Exposing what is mortall, and vnsure,} 2743+46 {To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,} 2743+47 {Euen for an Egge-shell. Rightly to be great,} 2743+48 {Is not to stirre without great argument,} 2743+49 {But greatly to find quarrell in a straw} 2743+50 {When honour's at the stake, how stand I then} 2743+51 {That haue a father kild, a mother staind,} 2743+52 {Excytements of my reason, and my blood,} 2743+53 {And let all sleepe, while to my shame I see} 2743+54 {The iminent death of twenty thousand men,} 2743+55 {That for a fantasie and tricke of fame} 2743+56 {Goe to their graues like beds, fight for a plot} 2743+57 {Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,} 2743+58 {Which is not tombe enough and continent} 2743+59 {To hide the slaine, ô from this time forth,} 2743+60 {My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth. Exit.} 2744 Enter {Horatio, Gertrard, and a Gentleman} <Queene and Horatio>.  |