THE TRAGEDIE OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK. First Quarto, 1603. Second Quarto, 1604. The First Folio, 1623. "Here many passages not to be found in the Quartos appear for the first time, but a few others that appear in the Quartos are omitted. Folio text probably came nearest to the original manuscript." Act I. i. 75: Marcellus "Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week?" Exod. xx. 8-"Remember the Sabbath day to keepe it holy. Sixe dayes shalt thou labour and doe all thy worke." Act I. i. 112-"A moth it is to trouble the mind's eye." Not in Folio. Luke vi. 42—" Let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye." Act I. i. 118: Horatio "Disasters in the sun; and the moist star As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen." Compare Matt. xxiv. 29-"And immediately after the tribulations of those dayes shall the sunne be darkened, and the moone shall not give her light, and the starres shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken." Act I. i. 147 Bernardo. "It was about to speak, when the cock crew." Upon a fearful summons." Compare Matt. xxvi. 74-" Then began he to curse himselfe, and to sweare, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cocke crew." 75-"Then Peter remembred the words of Jesus which had said unto him, Before the cocke crowe thou shalt denie me thrice. So he went out, and wept bitterly." Act I. i. 157: Marcellus "It faded on the crowing of the Cocke. Some sayes, that ever 'gainst that Season comes Wherein our Saviour's Birth is celebrated, The Bird of Dawning singeth all night long: And then (they say) no spirit can walke abroad 164-So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." ... Gen. xliii. 25-" And they made ready their present against Joseph came at noone." Mark xiii. 35-" At even or at midnight, at the cock-crowing or in the dawning." Wic.-"mornynge," followed by Rheims and Author. I Sam. xxv. 32-"By the dawning." Luke ii. 8-" And there were in the same countrey shepheards abiding in the field and keeping watch by night over their flocke, and loe, the Angell of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone about them." 11-"A Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Act I. ii. 1: King "Though yet of Hamlet our deere brother's death The memory be greene: and that it us befitted To beare our hearts in greefe, and our whole kingdome To be contracted in one brow of woe: Yet so farre hath Discretion fought with Nature That we with wisest sorrow thinke on him." I Thess. iv. 13-"I would not brethren have you ignorant concerning them which are asleepe, that ye sorow not even as other which have no hope." Ecclus. xxxviii. 17-" Make a greevous lamentation and be earnest in mourning, and use lamentation as he is worthy, and that, a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of and then comfort thyselfe for thine heavines." Act I. ii. 70- Queen. "Do not for ever with thy veyled lids Seeke for thy Noble Father in the dust: Thou know'st tis common, all that lives must dye, Passing through Nature to Eternity." Job vii. 21-" For nowe shall I sleep in the dust, and if thou seekest me in the morning I shall not be founde." Num. xvi. 29-"If these men die the common death of all men." Heb. ix. 27-" It is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and after that commeth the judgment." Heb. xi. 13-"Confessed that they were pilgrims and strangers on the earth." 16" But now they desire a better (countrey) that is, a heavenly." Act I. ii. 92 King. "But to persever In obstinate condolement, is a course Of impious stubbornesse. Tis unmanly greefe ; It shewes a will most incorrect to Heaven, A Heart unfortified, a Minde impatient, An Understanding simple and unschooled." Ecclus. xxxviii. 23-"Seeing the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, and comfort thyselfe againe for him when his spirit is departed from him." Rom. viii. 28-"Also we know that all things work together for the best unto them that love God." Act I. ii. 101 King. "Fie, tis a fault to Heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to Nature, To reason most absurd, whose common theme Is death of fathers." Ecclus xli. 3, 4-" Feare not the judgment of death, remember them that have bin before thee and that come after, this is the ordinance of the Lord over all flesh. And why wouldest thou be against the pleasure of the most High? whether it be tenne or an hundreth or a thousand yeres, there is no defence for life against the grave." Act I. ii. 129 Hamlet. "Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a Dew: Or that the Everlasting had not fixt His Cannon 'gainst selfe slaughter." Baruch iv. 14-"Which the Everlasting hath brought upon them." Baruch v. 2-"The glory of the Everlasting." Baruch iv. 20-"I will call upon the Everlasting." Shakespeare, following Puritan thought, evidently considers that suicide is forbidden in the Ten Commandments. Exod. xx. 13-"Thou shalt not kill." Genevan Note on 2 Macc. xiv. 41-" This private example (the suicide of Razis) ought not to be followed of the godly, because it is contrary to the Word of God." Wisd. of Sol. i. 12-" Seeke not death in the errour of your life, destroy not yourselves thorow the works of your owne hands." 15-" For righteousnesse is immortall, but unrighteousnesse bringeth death. And the ungodly call it (to wit, death) unto them both with hands and words: and while they thinke to have a friend of it they come to nought: for they are confederate with it, therefore are they worthy to be partakers thereof." Act I. ii. 133— "How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely." Eccles. i. 14-“I have considered all the workes that are done under the Sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit." Gen. iii. 17-"Cursed is the earth for thy sake, in sorow shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life. Thornes also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee." Act I. ii. 179-Horatio. "Indeed my lord, it followed hard upon." 2 Sam. i. 6—"The chariots and horsemen followed hard after him." Phil. iii. 14-" And folow harde towarde the mark." Ps. lxiii. 8 (Author.)-" My soul followeth hard after thee." Act I. ii. 244 "Ile speake to it, though Hell itselfe should gape And bid me hold my peace." Jud. xviii. 19—" And they said unto him, Hold thy peace." Luke iv. 35-" Hold thy peace and come out of him." Act I. ii. 256 "Foule deeds will rise, Though all the earth orewhelm them, to men's eies." Num. xxxii. 23-"Be sure that your sinne will finde you out." Gen. iv. 10-"The voyce of thy brother's blood cryeth unto Mee from the earth." Isa. xxvi. 20, 21-"The earth shall disclose her blood, and shal no more hide her slain." Job xxxiv. 21, 22-" For His eyes are on the wayes of man, and He seeth all his doings. There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death, that the workers of iniquitie might be hid therein." Amos ix. 2, 3-"Though they dig into the hel, thence shall My hand take them: though they clime up to heaven thence will I bring them downe. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I wil search and take them out thence, and though they be hid from My sight in the bottome of the sea, thence wil I command the serpent and he shall bite them." The inward service of the mind and Soule I Cor. vi. 19-"Your body is the Temple." Ephes. ii. 21-"In whom all the building, coupled together, groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord." 2 Cor. iv. 16-"But though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed daily." ་་ John ii. 21-" But he spake of the temple of His body." Act I. iii. 45: Ophelia― "I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. But good, my brother, Doe not as some ungracious Pastors doe Shew me the steepe and thorny way to Heaven; |