© Gunnar Tómasson

18 September 2016

I. This Spirit dumbe to vs, will speake to him

(Hamlet, Act I, Sc. I, First Folio, 1623)

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Marcellus

5475 = Holla Barnardo.

Barnardo

12499 = Say, what is Horatio there?

Horatio

      4177 = A peece of him.

Barnardo

19792 = Welcome Horatio, welcome, good Marcellus.

Marcellus

18533 = What,  ha’s this thing appear’d againe to night.

Barnardo

8047 = I haue seene nothing.

Marcellus

16590 = Horatio saies, ’tis but our Fantasie,

15548 = And will not let beleefe take hold of him

21128 = Touching this dreaded sight, twice seene of vs:

14510 = Therefore I haue intreated him along

23011 = With vs, to watch the minutes of this Night,

14532 = That if againe this Apparition come,

16303 = He may approue our eyes, and speake to it.

Horatio

15483 = Tush, tush, ’twill not appeare.

Barnardo

9328 = Sit downe a-while,

16162 = And let vs once againe assaile your eares,

18689 = That are so fortified against our Story,

16166 = What we two Nights haue seene.

Horatio

11084 = Well, sit we downe,

15573 = And let vs heare Barnardo speake of this.

Barnardo

7040 = Last night of all,

26514 = When yond same Starre that’s Westward from the Pole

19680 = Had made his course t’illume that part of Heauen

20546 = Where now it burnes, Marcellus and my selfe,

9091 = The Bell then beating one.

Marcellus

13752 = Peace, breake thee of:                             Enter the Ghost.

11868 = Looke where it comes againe.

Barnardo

16136 = In the same figure, like the King that’s dead.

Marcellus

18662 = Thou art a Scholler; speake to it Horatio.

Barnardo

19197 = Lookes it not like the King?  Marke it Horatio.

Horatio

21948 = Most like:  It harrowes me with fear & wonder.

Barnardo

11087 = It would be spoke too.

Marcellus

10706 = Question it Horatio.

Horatio

24708 = What art thou that vsurp’st this time of night

20034 = Together with that Faire and Warlike forme

16401 = In which the Maiesty of buried Denmarke

18449 = Did sometimes march:  By Heauen I charge thee speake.

Marcellus

5374 = It is offended.

Barnardo

9138 = See,  it stalkes away.

Horatio

14440 = Stay:  speake; speake:  I Charge thee, speake.

7301 = Exit the Ghost.

Marcellus

14861 = ‘Tis gone, and will not answer.

Barnardo

19156 = How now Horatio? You tremble & look pale:

18856 = Is not this something more then Fantasie?

10426 = What thinke you on´t?

Horatio

14784 = Before my God, I might not this beleeue

18787 = Without the sensible and true auouch

7841 = Of mine owne eyes.

Marcellus

9722 = Is it not like the King?

Horatio

11142 = As thou art to thy selfe,

15860 = Such was the very Armour he had on,

18119 = When th’Ambitious Norwey combatted:

17753 = So frown’d he once, when in an angry parle

14983 = He smot the sledded Pollax on the Ice.

6079 = ‘Tis strange.

Marcellus

20866 = Thus twice before, and iust at this dead houre,

21384 = With Martiall stalke, hath he gone by our Watch.

Horatio

26081 = In what particular thought to work, I know not:

18021 = But in the grosse and scope of my Opinion,

24114 = This boades some strange erruption to our State.

Marcellus

21349 = Good now sit downe, & tell me he that knowes,

24337 = Why this same strict and most obseruant Watch,

18095 = So nightly toyles the subiect of the Land,

17396 = And why such dayly Cast of Brazon Cannon,

19525 = And Forraigne Mart for Implements of warre:

28309 = Why such impresse of Ship-wrights, whose sore Taske

17940 = Do’s not diuide the Sunday from the weeke,

22431 = What might be toward, that this sweaty hast

20667 = Doth make the Night ioynt-Labourer with the day:

12864 = Who is ‘t that can informe me?

Horatio

3811 = That can I,

20733 = At least the whisper goes so: Our last King,

18954 = Whose Image euen but now appear’d to vs,

20967 = Was (as you know) by Fortinbras of Norway,

17904 = (Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate Pride)

20555 = Dar’d to the Combate. In which, our Valiant Hamlet,

24185 = (For so this side of our knowne world esteem’d him)

20235 = Did slay this Fortinbras: who by a Seal’d Compact,

14123 = Well ratified by Law, and Heraldrie,

19619 = Did forfeite (with his life) all those his Lands

20626 = Which he stood seiz’d on, to the Conqueror:

16588 = Against the which, a Moity competent

17516 = Was gaged by our King: which had return’d

14730 = To the Inheritance of Fortinbras,

17412 = Had he bin Vanquisher, as by the same Cou’nant,

12873 = And carriage of the Article designe,

21233 = His fell to Hamlet.  Now sir, young Fortinbras,

15412 = Of vnimproued Mettle, hot and full,

19394 = Hath in the skirts of Norway, heere and there

18466 = Shark’d vp a List of Landlesse Resolutes,

16421 = For Foode and Diet, to some Enterprize

19335 = That hath a stomacke in ‘t: which is no other

18896 = (And it doth well appeare vnto our State )

16495 = But to recouer of vs by strong hand

20749 = And termes Compulsatiue, those foresaid Lands

16416 = So by his Father lost:  and this (I take it)

18642 = Is the maine Motiue of our Preparations,

20781 = The Sourse of this our Watch, and the cheefe head

16403 = Of this post-hast, and Romage in the Land.

7642 = Enter Ghost againe.

17620 = But soft, behold:  Loe, where it comes againe.

21943 = Ile crosse it, though it blast me.  Stay Illusion:

17462 = If thou hast any sound, or vse of Voyce,

17704 = Speake to me:  If there be any good thing to be done,

18781 = That may to thee do ease, and grace to me;  speak to me.

19474 = If thou art priuy to thy Countries Fate,

20547 = (Which happily foreknowing may auoyd)  Oh speake.

16354 = Or, if thou hast vp-hoorded in thy life

19296 = Extorted Treasure in the wombe of Earth,

23578 = (For which, they say, you Spirits oft walke in death)

20067 = Speake of it. Stay, and speake.  Stop it, Marcellus.

Marcellus

18114 = Shall I strike at it with my Partizan?

Horatio

11112 = Do, if it will not stand.

Barnardo

4125 = ‘Tis heere.

Horatio

4125 = ‘Tis heere.

Marcellus                                                                                           

9800 = ‘Tis gone.  Exit Ghost.

16893 = We do it wrong, being so Maiesticall

15092 = To offer it the shew of Violence;

14413 = For it is as the Ayre, invulnerable,

18340 = And our vaine blowes malicious Mockery.

Barnardo

21305 = It was about to speake, when the Cocke crew.

Horatio

16248 = And then it started, like a guilty thing

15411 = Vpon a fearfull Summons.  I haue heard,

17807 = The Cocke that is the Trumpet to the day,

23315 = Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding Throate

15366 = Awake the God of Day: and at his warning

16724 = Whether in Sea, or Fire, in Earth, or Ayre,

17428 = Th ‘extrauagant and erring Spirit, hyes

16671 = To his Confine. And of the truth heerein

15767 = This present Obiect made probation.

Marcelllus

14994 = It faded on the crowing of the Cocke.

20968 = Some sayes, that euer ‘gainst that Season comes

20421 = Wherein our Sauiours Birth is celebrated,

17642 = The Bird of Dawning singeth all night long:

17922 = And then (they say) no Spirit can walke abroad,

22870 = The nights are wholsome, then no Planets strike,

22790 = No Faiery talkes, nor Witch hath power to Charme:

17783 = So hallow’d, and so gracious is the time.

Horatio

14405 = So haue I heard, and do in part beleeue it.

18633 = But looke, the Morne in Russet mantle clad,

19511 = Walkes o’er the dew of yon high Easterne Hill,

16546 = Breake we our Watch vp, and by my aduice

20339 = Let vs impart what we haue seene to night

14762 = Vnto yong Hamlet. For vpon my life,

21095 = This Spirit dumbe to vs, will speake to him:

22236 = Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,

19949 = As needfull in our Loues, fitting our Duty?

Marcellus

17289 = Let do ‘t, I pray; and I this morning know

    24539 = Where we shall finde him most conueniently.                Exeunt.

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II. And I this morning know

Where we shall finde him most conueniently

(Saga-Shakespeare Myth)

23406

Place and Date

  4884 = Reykjaholt

2307 = 23 September – 7^th month old-style

1241 = 1241 A.D.

Prince´s Devil Aspect

 -4000 = Dark Sword

Enter Father´s Ghost

  7615 = Get thee hence, Satan.

Prince Transformed

11359 = Snorri Sturluson

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III. The LORD of Heauen and earth blesse your Maiestie

So you may be the wonder of the world in this later age.

(Dedication, The King James Bible, 1611)

2542548

    17083 = To the most high and mightie Prince, James

14782 = by the grace of God King of Great Britaine,

13600 = France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. [c = 100 in &c]

16142 = The Translators of The Bible, wish        

23471 = Grace, Mercie, and Peace, through Iesvs Christ our Lord.

25844 = Great and manifold were the blessings (most dread Soueraigne)

18175 = which Almighty GOD, the Father of all Mercies,

27472 = bestowed vpon vs the people of ENGLAND, when first he sent

26231 = your Maiesties Royall person to rule and raigne ouer vs.

20761 = For whereas it was the expectation of many,

20349 = who wished not well vnto our SION,

17198 = that vpon the setting of that bright

15710 = Occidentall Starre Queene ELIZABETH

9424 = of most happy memory,

18376 = some thicke and palpable cloudes of darkenesse

18648 = would so haue ouershadowed this land,

13878 = that men should haue bene in doubt

15782 = which way they were to walke,

15261 = and that it should hardly be knowen,

19547 = who was to direct the vnsetled State:

12947 = the appearance of your MAIESTIE,

14404 = as of the Sunne in his strength.

27059 = instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists,

17924 = and gaue vnto all that were well affected

22864 = exceeding cause of comfort; especially when we beheld

20399 = the gouernment established in your HIGHNESSE,

18518 = and your hopefull Seed, by an vndoubted Title,

9996 = and this also accompanied

19326 = with Peace and tranquillitie, at home and abroad.

12121 = But amongst all our Ioyes,

20593 = there was no one that more filled our hearts,

12579 = then the blessed continuance

21601 = of the Preaching of GODS sacred word amongst vs,

17008 = which is that inestimable treasure,

18678 = which excelleth all the riches of the earth,

19597 = because the fruit thereof extendeth it selfe,

27323 = not onely to the time spent in this transitory world,

14104 = but directeth and disposeth men

24591 = vnto that Eternall happinesse which is aboue in Heauen.

21523 = Then, not to suffer this to fall to the ground,

30913 = but rather to take it vp, and to continue it in that state, wherein

24340 = the famous predecessour of your HIGHNESSE did leaue it;

27586 = Nay, to goe forward with the confidence and resolution of a man

16494 = in maintaining the trueth of CHRIST,

12944 = and propagating it farre and neere,

19426 = is that which hath so bound and firmely knit

17031 = the hearts of all your MAIESTIES loyall

14221 = and Religious people vnto you,

19655 = that your very Name is precious among them,

18171 = their eye doeth behold you with comfort,

26424 = and they blesse you in their hearts, as that sanctified person,

29842 = who vnder GOD, is the immediate authour of their true happinesse.

24171 = And this their contentment doeth not diminish or decay,

19250 = but euery day increaseth and taketh strength,

22410 = when they obserue that the zeale of your Maiestie

26020 = towards the house of GOD, doth not slacke or goe backward,

22020 = but is more and more kindled, manifesting it selfe abroad

18605 = in the furthest parts of Christendome,

15825 = by writing in defence of the Trueth,

23901 = (which hath giuen such a blow vnto that man of Sinne,

8430 = as will not be healed)

21881 = and euery day at home, by Religious and learned discourse,

13424 = by frequenting the house of GOD,

25817 = by hearing the word preached, by cherishing the teachers therof,

9916 = by caring for the Church

18829 = as a most tender and louing nourcing Father.

19308 = There are infinite arguments of this right

22543 = Christian and Religious affection in your MAIESTIE:

22020 = but none is more forcible to declare it to others,

17320 = then the vehement and perpetuated desire

22604 = of the accomplishing and publishing of this Worke,

32321 = which now with all humilitie we present vnto your MAIESTIE.

23846 = For when your Highnesse had once out of deepe judgment

17057 = apprehended, how conuenient it was,

18847 = That out of the Originall sacred tongues,

19144 = together with comparing of the labours,

21033 = both in our owne, and other forreigne Languages,

19731 = of many worthy men who went before vs,

12929 = there should be one more exact

29045 = Translation of the holy Scriptures into the English tongue;

17764 = your MAIESTIE did neuer desist, to vrge

21746 = and to excite those to whom it was commended,

14331 = that the worke might be hastened,

24488 = and that the businesse might be expedited in so decent a maner,

24495 = as a matter of such importance might iustly require.

14074 = And now at last, by the Mercy of GOD,

15651 = and the continuance of our Labours,

30488 = it being brought vnto such a conclusion, as that we haue great hope

23456 = that the Church of England shall reape good fruit thereby;

23807 = we hold it our duety to offer it to your MAIESTIE,

17329 = not onely as to our King and Soueraigne,

26260 = but as to the principall moouer and Author of the Worke.

19776 = Humbly crauing of your most Sacred Maiestie,

16010 = that since things of this quality

17125 = haue euer bene subiect to the censures

17049 = of ill meaning and discontented persons,

16624 = it may receiue approbation and Patronage

25494 = from so learned and iudicious a Prince as your Highnesse is,

21401 = whose allowance and acceptance of our Labours

15850 = shall more honour and incourage vs,

11761 = then all the calumniations

23605 = and hard interpretations of other men shall dismay vs.

10548 = So that, if on the one side

23984 = we shall be traduced by Popish persons at home or abroad,

15346 = who therefore will maligne vs,

28146 = because we are poore Instruments to make GODS holy Trueth

20859 = to be yet more and more knowen vnto the people,

25267 = whom they desire still to keepe in ignorance and darknesse:

9729 = or if on the other side,

18634 = we shall be maligned by selfe-conceited brethren,

28157 = who runne their owne wayes, and giue liking vnto nothing

25716 = but what is framed by themselues, and hammered on their Anuile;

32015 = we may rest secure, supported within by the trueth and innocencie

7810 = of a good conscience,

24170 = hauing walked the wayes of simplicitie and integritie,

7044 = as before the Lord;

12205 = And sustained without,

29877 = by the powerfull Protection of your Maiesties grace and fauour,

16674 = which will euer giue countenance

16584 = to honest and Christian endeuours

25197 = against bitter censures, and vncharitable imputations.

10393 = The LORD of Heauen and earth

19648 = blesse your Maiestie with many and happy dayes,

21799 = that as his Heauenly hand hath enriched your Highnesse

20534 = with many singular, and extraordinary Graces;

24271 = so you may be the wonder of the world in this later age,

14503 = for happinesse and true felicitie,

24291 = to the honour of that Great GOD, and the good of his Church,

    24380 = through IESVS CHRIST our Lord and onely Sauiour.

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