With fuch a heady current, fcowering faults:
Nor ever Hydra-headed wilfulness

So foon did lofe his feat, and all at once,

As in this King.

ELY. We're bleffed in the change.

CANT. Hear him but reason in divinity,
And, all-admiring, with an inward with

You would defire, the King were made a Prelate.
Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,

You'd fay, it had been all in all his study.

Lift his difcourfe of

war, and

you shall hear

A fearful battle rendered

you in mufic.

Turn him to any cause of policy,

The Gordian knot of it he will unloofe,
Familiar as his garter. When he speaks,
The air, a charter'd libertine, is ftill;
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
To fteal his fweet and honeyed fentences:
So that the act, and practic part of life,
"Must be the mistress to this theorique.
Which is a wonder how his Grace should glean it,
Since his addiction was to courses vain ;

His companies unletter'd, rude and fhallow;
- His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports;
And never noted in him any study,
Any retirement, any fequeftration,
From open haunts, and popularity.

ELY. The ftrawberry grows underneath the nettle,
And wholefome berries thrive, and ripen beft,
Neighbour'd by fruit of bafer quality :
And fo the prince obfcur'd his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,

Grew

Grew like the fummer-grafs, fastest by night,
Unfeen, yet crescive in his faculty.

CANT. It must be fo: for miracles are ceas'd:
And therefore we must needs admit the means,
How things are perfected.

SHAKSPEARE.

CHA P.

XIII.

HAMLET AND HORATIO.

HOR. TAIL to your Lordship!

HOR.HAIL

HAM. I am glad to fee you well.

Horatio, or I do forget myself.

HOR. The fame, my Lord, and your poor fervant ever. HAM. Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with

you:

And what makes you from Wittenburg, Horatio ?

HOR. A truant difpofition, good my Lord..
HAM. I would not hear your enemy say so ;

Nor fhall you do mine ear that violence,
To make it trufter of your own report
Againft yourself, I know you are no truant;
But what is your affair in Elfinoor?

We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.

HOR. My Lord, I came to fee your father's funeral..
HAM. I pr'ythee do not mock me, fellow-student;

I think it was to fee my mother's wedding.

HOR. Indeed, my Lord, it follow'd hard upon.

HAM. Thrift, thirft, Horatio; the funeral bak'd meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Would I had met my dearest foe in heav'n,

On

Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio?
My father-Methinks I fee my

father.

HOR. Oh where, my Lord?
HAM. In my mind's eye, Horatio.

HOR. I faw him once, he was a goodly King..
HAM. He was a man, take him for all in all,
1 fhall not look upon his like again.

HOR. My Lord, I think I faw him yesternight.
HAM. Saw? who?

HOR. My Lord, the King your father.

HAM. The King my father?

HOR. Seafon your admiration but a while,

With an attentive ear; till I deliver,

Upon the witness of these gentlemen,

This marvel to you.

HAM. For Heaven's love, let me hear.

HOR. Two nights together had these gentlemen,
Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,

In the dead waste and middle of the night,
Been thus encountered: A figure like your father,
Arm'd at all points exactly, cap-à-pe,

Appears before them, and with folemn march
Goes flow and ftately by them: thrice he walk'd
By their opprefs'd and fear-furprised eyes,

Within his truncheon's length; whilft they (diftill'a
Almoft to jelly with th' effect of fear)

Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to me
In dreadful fecrecy impart they did,

And I with them the third night kept the watch:
Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,
Form of the thing, each word made true and good,

The

The apparition comes. I knew

Thefe hands are not more like.

HAM. But where was this?

your father :

HOR. My Lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. HAM. Did you not speak to it?

HOR. My Lord I did;

But anfwer made it none.

Yet once methought

It lifted up its head, and did address

Itfelf to motion, like as it would speak,

But even then the morning cock crew loud;
And at the found it fhrunk in hafte away,
And vanish'd from our fight.

HAM. 'Tis very strange.

HOR. As I do live, my honour'd Lord, 'tis true;

And we did think it writ down in our duty

To let you know of it.

HAM. Indeed, indeed, Sir, but this troubles me.

Hold you the watch to-night?

HOR. We do, my Lord.

HAM. Arm'd, say you?

HOR. Arm'd, my Lord.

HAM. From top to toe?

HOR. My Lord, from head to foot.

HAM. Then faw you not his face?

HOR. Oh, yes, my Lord; he wore his beaver up.
HAM. What, look'd he frowuingly ?

HOR. A count'nance more in forrow than in anger.
HAM. Pale, or red?

HOR. Nay, very pale.

HAM. And fix'd his eyes upon you?

HOR. Moft constantly.

HAM. I would I had been there!

HOR.

HOR. It would have much amaz'd you.

HAM. Very like. Staid it long?

HOR. While one with moderate hafte might tell a hundred.

HAM. His beard was grifl'd?-no.

HOR. It was, as I have seen it in his life,

A fable filver'd.

HAM. I'll watch to-night; perchance 'twill walk again. HOR. I warrant you, it will.

HAM. If it affumes my noble father's perfon,

I'll speak to it, tho' hell itself should
gape,
And bid me hold my peace. I pray you
If you have hitherto conceal'd this fight,
Let it be ten'ble in your filence ftill:
And whatsoever shall befal to night,
Give it an understanding, but no tongue :
I will requite your love: fo fare ye well.
Upon the platform 'twixt eleven and twelve

I'll vifit you.

SHAKSPEARE.

CHA P. XIV.

BRUTUS AND CASSIUS.

CAS.WILL you go fee the order of the course?

BRU. Not I.

CAS. I pray you, do.

BRU. I am not gamefome; I do lack fome part

Of that quick fpirit that is in Antony;

Let me not hinder, Caffius, your desires ;

I'll leave you.

CAS. Brutus, I do obferve you now of late; I have not from your eyes that gentleness

And