Oph. I shall obey, my lord. [Exeunt.[351]

Scene IV. The platform.[352]

Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus.

Ham. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.[353]

Hor. It is a nipping and an eager air.[354]

Ham. What hour now?

Hor. I think it lacks of twelve.

Mar. No, it is struck.[355]

Hor. Indeed? I heard it not: it then draws near the season[356] 5
Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.

[A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off within.[357]