The player King's speech
II. ii. 447-514 -- 1493-1559  1494 sable Armes, 1495 Black as his purpose did the night resemble, 1496 When he lay couched in {th'omynous} <the Ominous> horse, 1497 Hath now this dread and black complection smeard, 1498 With {heraldy} <Heraldry> more dismall head to foote, 1499 Now is he {totall} <to take> Gules horridly trickt 1500 With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sonnes, 1501 Bak'd and empasted with the parching streetes 1502 That lend a tirranus and {a} damned light 1503 To their {Lords murther} <vilde Murthers>, rosted in wrath and fire, 1504 And thus ore-cised with coagulate gore, 1505 With eyes like Carbunkles, the hellish Phirrhus 1506 Old grandsire Priam seekes; {so proceede you}. 1507-8 Pol. Foregod my Lord well spoken, with good {accent} <ac-| cent> and good 1508-9 Play. Anon he finds him, (discretion. 1510 Striking too short at Greekes, his anticke sword 1511 Rebellious to his arme, lies where it fals, 1512 Repugnant to commaund; vnequall {matcht} <match>, 1513 Pirrhus at Priam driues, in rage strikes wide, 1514 But with the whiffe and winde of his fell sword, 1515 Th'vnnerued father fals: <Then senselesse Illium,> 1516 Seeming to feele {this} <his> blowe, with flaming top 1517 Stoopes to his base; and with a hiddious crash 1518 Takes prisoner Pirrhus eare, for loe his sword 1519 Which was declining on the milkie head 1520 Of {reuerent} <Reuerend> Priam, seem'd i'th ayre to stick, 1521 <Oo4v> So as a painted tirant Pirrhus stood 1522 <And> Like a newtrall to his will and matter, 1522 Did nothing: 1523 But as we often see against some storme, 1524 A silence in the heauens, the racke stand still, 1525 The bold winds speechlesse, and the orbe belowe 1526 As hush as death, anon the dreadfull thunder 1527 Doth rend the region, so after Pirrhus pause, 1528 A rowsed vengeance sets him new a worke, 1529 And neuer did the Cyclops hammers fall, 1530 On {Marses Armor} <Mars his Armours,> forg'd for proofe eterne, 1531 With lesse remorse then Pirrhus bleeding sword 1532 Now falls on Priam. | 1534 In generall sinod take away her power, 1535 Breake all the spokes, and {follies} <Fallies> from her wheele, 1536 And boule the round naue downe the hill of heauen 1537 As lowe as to the fiends. 1538 Pol. This is too long. 1539-40 Ham. It shall {to the} <to'th> barbers with your beard; {prethee} <Pry-| thee> say on, he's 1540-1 for a Iigge, or a tale of bawdry, or he | sleepes, say on, come to Hecuba. 1542 Play. But who, {a woe} <O who>, had seene the {mobled} <inobled> Queene, 1543 Ham. The {mobled} <inobled> Queene{.} <?> 1544 Pol. That's good<: Inobled Queene is good>. 1545-6 Play. Runne barefoote vp and downe, | threatning the {flames} <flame> 1547 With Bison rehume, a clout {vppon} <about> that head 1548 Where late the Diadem stood, and for a robe, 1549 About her lanck and all ore-teamed loynes, 1550 A blancket in {the alarme} <th'Alarum> of feare caught vp, 1551 Who this had seene, with tongue in venom steept, 1552 Gainst fortunes state would treason haue pronounst; 1553 But if the gods themselues did see her then, 1554 When she saw Pirrhus make malicious sport 1555 In mincing with his sword her {husband} <Husbands> limmes, 1556 The instant burst of clamor that she made, 1557 Vnlesse things mortall mooue them not at all, 1558 Would haue made milch the burning eyes of heauen 1559 And passion in the gods. |