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Название: Hamlet

Автор: William Shakespeare

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СКАЧАТЬ a larger tether may he walk

      Than may be given you. In few, Ophelia,

      Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,

      Not of that dye which their investments show, 615

      But mere implorators of unholy suits,

      Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,

      The better to beguile. This is for all:

      I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth

      Have you so slander any moment leisure 620

      As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.

      Look to't, I charge you. Come your ways.

      Ophelia. I shall obey, my lord.

      Exeunt.

      Act I, Scene 4.

      Elsinore. The platform before the Castle.

      Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus.

      Hamlet. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.

      Horatio. It is a nipping and an eager air.

      Hamlet. What hour now?

      Horatio. I think it lacks of twelve.

      Marcellus. No, it is struck. 630

      Horatio. Indeed? I heard it not. It then draws near the season

      Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.

      [A flourish of trumpets, and two pieces go off.]

      What does this mean, my lord?

      Hamlet. The King doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, 635

      Keeps wassail, and the swagg'ring upspring reels,

      And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,

      The kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out

      The triumph of his pledge.

      Horatio. Is it a custom? 640

      Hamlet. Ay, marry, is't;

      But to my mind, though I am native here

      And to the manner born, it is a custom

      More honour'd in the breach than the observance.

      This heavy-headed revel east and west 645

      Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations;

      They clip us drunkards and with swinish phrase

      Soil our addition; and indeed it takes

      From our achievements, though perform'd at height,

      The pith and marrow of our attribute. 650

      So oft it chances in particular men

      That, for some vicious mole of nature in them,

      As in their birth, — wherein they are not guilty,

      Since nature cannot choose his origin, —

      By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, 655

      Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,

      Or by some habit that too much o'erleavens

      The form of plausive manners, that these men

      Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,

      Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, 660

      Their virtues else- be they as pure as grace,

      As infinite as man may undergo-

      Shall in the general censure take corruption

      From that particular fault. The dram of e'il

      Doth all the noble substance often dout To his own scandal. 665

      Enter Ghost.

      Horatio. Look, my lord, it comes!

      Hamlet. Angels and ministers of grace defend us!

      Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,

      Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, 670

      Be thy intents wicked or charitable,

      Thou com'st in such a questionable shape

      That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet,

      King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me?

      Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell 675

      Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death,

      Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre

      Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,

      Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws

      To cast thee up again. What may this mean 680

      That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,

      Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon,

      Making night hideous, and we fools of nature

      So horridly to shake our disposition

      With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? 685

      Say, why is this? wherefore? What should we do?

      Ghost beckons Hamlet.

      Horatio. СКАЧАТЬ