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HAMLET PRINCE OF DENMARK Additional Passage A Just before the second entrance of the Ghost in 1.1 (l. 106.1), Q2 has these additional lines: l1l Barnardo I think it be no other but eÆen so. l2l Well may it sort that this portentous figure l3l Comes armΦd through our watch so like the king l4l That was and is the question of these wars. l5l Horatio A mote it is to trouble the mindÆs eye. l6l In the most high and palmy state of Rome, l7l A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, l8l The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead l9l Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets l10l At stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, l11l Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, l12l Upon whose influence NeptuneÆs empire stands, l13l Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. l14l And even the like precurse of feared events, l15l As harbingers preceding still the fates, l16l And prologue to the omen coming on, l17l Have heaven and earth together demonstrated l18l Unto our climature and countrymen. Additional Passage B Just before the entrance of the Ghost in 1.4 (line 18.1), Q2 has these additional lines continuing HamletÆs speech: l1l Hamlet This heavy-headed revel east and west l2l Makes us traduced and taxed of other nations. l3l They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase l4l Soil our addition; and indeed it takes l5l From our achievements, though performed at height, l6l The pith and marrow of our attribute. l7l So, oft it chances in particular men l8l That, for some vicious mole of nature in themù l9l As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, l10l Since nature cannot choose his origin, l11l By the oÆergrowth of some complexion, l12l Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, l13l Or by some habit that too much oÆerleavens l14l The form of plausive mannersùthat these men, l15l Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, l16l Being natureÆs livery or fortuneÆs star, l17l His virtues else be they as pure as grace, l18l As infinite as man may undergo, l19l Shall in the general censure take corruption l20l From that particular fault. The dram of evil l21l Doth all the noble substance over-daub l22l To his own scandal. Additional Passage C After 1.4.55, Q2 has these additional lines continuing HoratioÆs speech: l1l Horatio The very place puts toys of desperation, l2l Without more motive, into every brain l3l That looks so many fathoms to the sea l4l And hears it roar beneath. Additional Passage D After 3.2.163, Q2 has this additional couplet concluding the Player QueenÆs speech: l1l Player Queen Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; l2l Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. Additional Passage E After 3.2.208, Q2 has this additional couplet in the middle of the Player QueenÆs speech: l1l Player Queen To desperation turn my trust and hope; l2l An anchorÆs cheer in prison be my scope. Additional Passage F After ôthis?ö in 3.4.70, Q2 has this more expansive version of HamletÆs lines of which F retains only ôwhat devil . . . blindö: l1l Hamlet Sense sure you have, l2l Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense l3l Is apoplexed, for madness would not err, l4l Nor sense to ecstasy was neÆer so thralled l5l But it reserved some quantity of choice l6l To serve in such a difference. What devil was Æt l7l That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind? l8l Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, l9l Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, l10l Or but a sickly part of one true sense l11l Could not so mope. Additional Passage G After 3.4.151, Q2 has this more expansive version of HamletÆs lines of which F retains only ôrefrain . . . abstinenceö: l1l Hamlet That monster custom, who all sense doth eat, l2l Of habits devilish, is angel yet in this: l3l That to the use of actions fair and good l4l He likewise gives a frock or livery l5l That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, l6l And that shall lend a kind of easiness l7l To the next abstinence, the next more easyù l8l For use almost can change the stamp of natureù l9l And either in the devil, or throw him out l10l With wondrous potency. Additional Passage H At 3.4.185, Q2 has these additional lines before ôThis man . . .ö: l1l Hamlet ThereÆs letters sealed, and my two schoolfellowsù l2l Whom I will trust as I will adders fangedù l3l They bear the mandate, they must sweep my way l4l And marshal me to knavery. Let it work, l5l For Ætis the sport to have the engineer l6l Hoised with his own petard; and Æt shall go hard l7l But I will delve one yard below their mines l8l And blow them at the moon. O, Ætis most sweet l9l When in one line two crafts directly meet. Additional Passage I After ôdoneö in 4.1.39, Q2 has these additional lines continuing theKingÆs speech (the first three words are an editorial conjecture). l1l King Claudius So envious slander, l2l Whose whisper oÆer the worldÆs diameter, l3l As level as the cannon to his blank, l4l Transports his poisoned shot, may miss our name l5l And hit the woundless air. Additional Passage J Q2 has this more expansive version of the ending of 4.4: l1l Captain I will do Æt, my lord. l2l Fortinbras Go softly on. (Exit with his army) (Enter Prince Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, etc.) Hamlet (to the Captain) Good sir, whose powers are these? l3l Captain They are of Norway, sir. Hamlet How purposed, sir, I pray you? l4l Captain Against some part of Poland. Hamlet Who commands them, sir? l5l Captain The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras. l6l Hamlet Goes it against the main of Poland, sir, l7l Or for some frontier? l8l Captain Truly to speak, and with no addition, l9l We go to gain a little patch of ground l10l That hath in it no profit but the name. l11l To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it, l12l Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole l13l A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee. l14l Hamlet Why then, the Polack never will defend it. l15l Captain Yes, it is already garrisoned. l16l Hamlet Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats l17l Will now debate the question of this straw. l18l This is thÆ imposthume of much wealth and peace, l19l That inward breaks and shows no cause without l20l Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir. l21l Captain God buy you, sir. (Exit) Rosencrantz Will Æt please you go, my lord? l22l Hamlet IÆll be with you straight. Go a little before. (Exeunt all but Hamlet) l23l How all occasions do inform against me l24l And spur my dull revenge! What is a man l25l If his chief good and market of his time l26l Be but to sleep and feed?ùa beast, no more. l27l Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, l28l Looking before and after, gave us not l29l That capability and god-like reason l30l To fust in us unused. Now whether it be l31l Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple l32l Of thinking too precisely on thÆ eventù l33l A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom l34l And ever three parts cowardùI do not know l35l Why yet I live to say ôThis thingÆs to doö, l36l Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, l37l To do Æt. Examples gross as earth exhort me, l38l Witness this army of such mass and charge, l39l Led by a delicate and tender prince, l40l Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed l41l Makes mouths at the invisible event, l42l Exposing what is mortal and unsure l43l To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, l44l Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great l45l Is not to stir without great argument, l46l But greatly to find quarrel in a straw l47l When honourÆs at the stake. How stand I, then, l48l That have a father killed, a mother stained, l49l Excitements of my reason and my blood, l50l And let all sleep while, to my shame, I see l51l The imminent death of twenty thousand men l52l That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, l53l Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot l54l Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, l55l Which is not tomb enough and continent l56l To hide the slain. O, from this time forth l57l My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth! (Exit) Additional Passage K After ôaccidentö at 4.7.67, Q2 has these additional lines: l1l Laertes My lord, I will be ruled, l2l The rather if you could devise it so l3l That I might be the organ. King Claudius It falls right. l4l You have been talked of, since your travel, much, l5l And that in HamletÆs hearing, for a quality l6l Wherein they say you shine. Your sum of parts l7l Did not together pluck such envy from him l8l As did that one, and that, in my regard, l9l Of the unworthiest siege. Laertes What part is that, my lord? l10l King Claudius A very ribbon in the cap of youth, l11l Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes l12l The light and careless livery that it wears l13l Than settled age his sables and his weeds l14l Importing health and graveness. Additional Passage L After ômatch youö at 4.7.85, Q2 has these additional lines continuing the KingÆs speech: l1l King Claudius ThÆ escrimers of their nation l2l He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye l3l If you opposed them. Additional Passage M After 4.7.96, Q2 has these additional lines continuing the KingÆs speech: l1l King Claudius There lives within the very flame of love l2l A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it, l3l And nothing is at a like goodness still, l4l For goodness, growing to a plurisy, l5l Dies in his own too much. That we would do l6l We should do when we would, for this ôwouldö changes, l7l And hath abatements and delays as many l8l As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; l9l And then this ôshouldö is like a spendthriftÆs sigh, l10l That hurts by easing. But to the quick of thÆ ulcerù Additional Passage N After ôSirö at 5.2.107, Q2 has these lines (in place of FÆs ôyou are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is at his weaponö: l1l Osric here is newly come to court Laertes, believe me, an l2l absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, l3l of very soft society and great showing. Indeed, to speak l4l feelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, l5l for you shall find in him the continent of what part a l6l gentleman would see. l7l Hamlet Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you, l8l though I know to divide him inventorially would dizzy l9l thÆ arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither in l10l respect of his quick sail. But in the verity of extolment, l11l I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion l12l of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction l13l of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would l14l trace him his umbrage, nothing more. l15l Osric Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him. l16l Hamlet The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the l17l gentleman in our more rawer breath? l18l Osric Sir? l19l Horatio Is Æt not possible to understand in another l20l tongue? You will to Æt, sir, rarely. l21l Hamlet What imports the nomination of this gentleman? l22l Osric Of Laertes? l23l Horatio (aside to Hamlet) His purse is empty already; all l24l Æs golden words are spent. l25l Hamlet (to Osric) Of him, sir. l26l Osric I know you are not ignorantù l27l Hamlet I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did it l28l would not much approve me. Well, sir? l29l Osric You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is. l30l Hamlet I dare not confess that, lest I should compare l31l with him in excellence. But to know a man well were l32l to know himself. l33l Osric I mean, sir, for his weapon. But in the imputation l34l laid on him by them, in his meed heÆs unfellowed. Additional Passage O After 5.2.118, Q2 has the following additional speech: l1l Horatio (aside to Hamlet) I knew you must be edified by l2l the margin ere you had done. Additional Passage P After 5.2.154, Q2 has the following (in place of FÆs ôHORATIO You will lose this wager, my lordö): (Enter a Lord) l1l Lord (to Hamlet) My lord, his majesty commended him to l2l you by young Osric, who brings back to him that you l3l attend him in the hall. He sends to know if your l4l pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that you will l5l take longer time. l6l Hamlet I am constant to my purposes; they follow the l7l KingÆs pleasure. If his fitness speaks, mine is ready, l8l now or whensoever, provided I be so able as now. l9l Lord The King and Queen and all are coming down. l10l Hamlet In happy time. l11l Lord The Queen desires you to use some gentle l12l entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play. l13l Hamlet She well instructs me. (Exit Lord) l14l Horatio You will lose, my lord.