Hor. Neuer beleeue it. [Sidenote: 134] I am more an Antike Roman then a Dane: [Sidenote: 135] Heere's yet some Liquor left.[2]
Ham. As th'art a man, giue me the Cup.
Let go, by Heauen Ile haue't. [Sidenote: hate,]
[Sidenote: 114, 251] Oh good Horatio, what a wounded name,[3]
[Sidenote: O god Horatio,]
(Things standing thus vnknowne) shall liue behind me.
[Sidenote: shall I leaue behind me?]
If thou did'st euer hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicitie awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in paine,[1]
[Sidenote: A march a farre off.]
To tell my Storie.[4]
March afarre off, and shout within.[5]
What warlike noyse is this?
Enter Osricke.
Osr. Yong Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland To th'Ambassadors of England giues this warlike volly.[6]
Ham. O I dye Horatio:
The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit,
I cannot liue to heare the Newes from England,
[Sidenote: 62] But I do prophesie[7] th'election lights
[Sidenote: 276] On Fortinbras, he ha's my dying voyce,[8]
So tell him with the occurrents more and lesse,[9] [Sidenote: th']
Which haue solicited.[10] The rest is silence. O, o, o, o.[11]
Dyes[12]
Hora. Now cracke a Noble heart: [Sidenote: cracks a]
Goodnight sweet Prince,
And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest,
Why do's the Drumme come hither?
[Footnote 1: His care over his reputation with the people is princely, and casts a true light on his delay. No good man can be willing to seem bad, except the being good necessitates it. A man must be willing to appear a villain if that is the consequence of being a true man, but he cannot be indifferent to that appearance. He cannot be indifferent to wearing the look of the thing he hates. Hamlet, that he may be understood by the nation, makes, with noble confidence in his friendship, the large demand on Horatio, to live and suffer for his sake.]
[Footnote 2: Here first we see plainly the love of Horatio for Hamlet: here first is Hamlet's judgment of Horatio (134) justified.]
[Footnote 3: —for having killed his uncle:—what, then, if he had slain him at once?]
[Footnote 4: Horatio must be represented as here giving sign of assent.