© Gunnar Tómasson

31 March 2016

Murther most foule, as in the best it is.

(Hamlet, First Folio, Act I, Sc. v)

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       9462 = Enter Ghost and Hamlet.

Hamlet

22112 = Where wilt thou lead me? speak; Ile go no further.

Ghost

2883 = Marke me.

Hamlet

3756 = I will.

Ghost

11748 = My hower is almost come,

22142 = When I to sulphurous and tormenting Flames

10942 = Must render up my selfe.

Hamlet

7778 = Alas poore Ghost.

Ghost

19231 = Pitty me not, but lend thy serious hearing

10823 = To what I shall unfold.

Hamlet

9425 = Speake, I am bound to heare.

Ghost

21689 = So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt heare.

Hamlet

3270 = What?

Ghost

10539 = I am thy Fathers Spirit,

19489 = Doom’d for a certaine terme to walke the night;

15474 = And for the day confin’d to fast in Fiers,

19868 = Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature

10839 = Are burnt and purg’d away?

7855 = But that I am forbid

18785 = To tell the secrets of my Prison-House,

20467 = I could a Tale unfold, whose lightest word

25179 = Would harrow up thy soule, freeze thy young blood,

27383 = Make thy two eyes like Starres, start from their Spheres,

16795 = Thy knotty and combined locks to part,

15570 = And each particular haire to stand an end,

20558 = Like Quilles upon the fretfull Porpentine:

17082 = But this eternall blason must not be

19562 = To eares of flesh and bloud; list Hamlet, oh list,

16884 = If thou didst ever thy deare Father love.

Hamlet

3459 = Oh Heaven!

Ghost

22153 = Revenge his foule and most unnaturall Murther.

Hamlet

4660 = Murther?

Ghost

18629 = Murther most foule, as in the best it is;

20891 = But this most foule, strange, and unnaturall.

Hamlet

11813 = Hast, hast me to know it,

15426 = That with wings as swift

17684 = As meditation, or the thoughts of Love,

11099 = May sweepe to my Revenge.

Ghost

5591 = I finde thee apt;

20490 = And duller should’st thou be then the fat weede

18672 = That rots it selfe in ease, on Lethe Wharfe,

18843 = Would’st thou not stirre in this.

     7499 = Now Hamlet heare:

19608 = It’s given out, that sleeping in mine Orchard,

21032 = A Serpent stung me: so the whole eare of Denmarke,

13077 = Is by a forged processe of my death

18982 = Rankly abus’d: But know thou Noble youth,

18951 = The Serpent that did sting thy Fathers life,

13593 = Now weares his Crowne.

Hamlet

15252 = O my Propheticke soule: mine Uncle?

Ghost

19142 = I that incestuous, that adulterate Beast

29730 = With witchcraft of his wits, hath Traitorous guifts.

21415 = Oh wicked Wit, and Gifts, that have the power

22656 = So to seduce? Won to to this shamefull Lust

22351 = The will of my most seeming vertuous Queene.

17021 = Oh Hamlet, what a falling oft was there,

18901 = From me, whose love was of that dignity,

21371 = That it went hand in hand, even with the Vow

13881 = I made to her in Marriage; and to decline

25184 = Upon a wretch, whose Naturall gifts were poore

24348 = To those of mine. But Vertue, as it never wil be moved,

21122 = Though Lewdnesse court it in a shape of Heaven:

17577 = So Lust, though to a radiant Angell link’d,

20657 = Will sate it selfe in a Celestiall bed & prey on Garbage.

20310 = But soft, me thinkes I sent the Mornings Ayre;

18535 = Briefe let me be: Sleeping within mine Orchard,

17248 = My custome alwayes in the afternoone;

19016 = Upon my secure hower thy Uncle stole

17466 = With iuyce of cursed Hebenon in a Violl,

16672 = And in the Porches of mine eares did poure

18685 = The leaperous Distilment; whose effect

17290 = Holds such an enmity with bloud of Man,

25233 = That swift as Quick-silver, it courses through

15783 = The naturall Gates and Allies of the Body;

19585 = And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset

16801 = And curd, like aygre droppings into Milke,

18159 = The thin and wholsome blood: so did it mine;

15969 = And a most instant tetter bak’d about,

22687 = Most Lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,

7531 = All my smooth Body.

16992 = Thus was I, sleeping, by a Brothers hand,

19671 = Of Life, of Crowne, and Queene at once dispatcht;

18043 = Cut off even in the Blossomes of my Sinne,

16349 = Unhouzzled, disappointed, unnaneld,

18018 = No reckoning made, but sent to my account

15902 = With all my imperfections on my head;

16946 = Oh horrible, Oh horrible, most horrible;

17164 = If thou hast nature in thee beare it not;

13314 = Let not the Royall Bed of Denmarke be

15607 = A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.

22022 = But howsoever thou pursuest this Act,

22240 = Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contrive

19204 = Against thy Mother ought; leave her to heaven,

19764 = And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge,

19266 = To pricke and sting her. Fare thee well at once;

22305 = The Glow-worme showes the Matine to be neere,

15555 = And gins to pale his uneffectuall Fire:

   12486 = Adue, adue, Hamlet; remember me.   Exit.

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