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6 HAMLET.
And our vain blows, malicious mockery
Ber. ft was about to fpeak, when the cock crew.
Her. And then it llarted like a guilty thing
Upon,a fearful fummens. I have heard.
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
Doth with his lofty and (hrill-founding throat
Awake the god of day ; and, at his warning,
Whether in lea or fire, in earth or air.
The extravagant and erring fpirbhies
To his confine.
Hor. But look, the morn, in ruflet mantle clad,
Walks o’er the dew of yon high eafiern hill.
Break we our watch up ; and, by my advice.
Let us impart what we b,avefeen to night
Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,
Thisfpirit, dumb to us, will fpeak to him. {Exeunt.
SCENE, a Room of State.
The King, Queen, Hamlet, Polonius. Laertes.
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King. Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death
The memory be green ; and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in giief, and our whole kingdom
To be contrafled in one brow of woe :
Yet fo far hath diferetion fought with nature,
That we with wifeft foreow think on him,
Togethet with leroembrance of ourfel/es.
Therefore, our fometime fitter, now our queen.
The imperial jointrefs ofthis warlike fiate.
Have we, as ’twere, with a defeated joy.
Taken to wife—Nor have we herein barr’d
Your better wifdoms, which have freely gone
With this affair along.
But now, Laertes, what’s the news with you ?
You told us of fome fuit. What is’t, Laertes ?
Laer. My dear lord'.
Your leave and favour to return to France ;
From whence, though willingly I came to Denmark;
To fliew my duty in yourcoronaiion j
Yet now Imuftconrefs, that duty done,
My thoughts and wifhes bend again toward France,
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.[nius?
King. Have you your father’s leave f Whatfay° Polo-
Fel. He hath, m/lord, wrung from me my flow lea vs,