'To do my nature in slander'; to affect it with slander; to bring it into slander, 'Angelo may punish in my name, but, not being present, I shall not be accused of cruelty, which would be to slander my nature.']
[Footnote 22: his—the man's; see note 13 above.]
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[Sidenote: 112] Be thy euents wicked or charitable,
[Sidenote: thy intent]
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape[1]
That I will speake to thee. Ile call thee Hamlet,[2]
King, Father, Royall Dane: Oh, oh, answer me,
[Sidenote: Dane, ô answere]
Let me not burst in Ignorance; but tell
Why thy Canoniz'd bones Hearsed in death,[3]
Haue burst their cerments; why the Sepulcher
Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn'd,[4]
[Sidenote: quietly interr'd[3]
Hath op'd his ponderous and Marble iawes,
To cast thee vp againe? What may this meane?
That thou dead Coarse againe in compleat steele,
Reuisits thus the glimpses of the Moone,
Making Night hidious? And we fooles of Nature,[6]
So horridly to shake our disposition,[7]
With thoughts beyond thee; reaches of our Soules,[8]
[Sidenote: the reaches]
Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we doe?[9]
Ghost beckens Hamlet.
Hor. It beckons you to goe away with it, [Sidenote: Beckins] As if it some impartment did desire To you alone.
Mar. Looke with what courteous action It wafts you to a more remoued ground: [Sidenote: waues] But doe not goe with it.
Hor. No, by no meanes.
Ham. It will not speake: then will I follow it. [Sidenote: I will]
Hor. Doe not my Lord.