Laer. What ceremony else?[2086]
Ham. That is Laertes, a very noble youth: mark.[2087]
Laer. What ceremony else?
First Priest. Her obsequies have been as far enlarged[2088][2089]
As we have warranty: her death was doubtful;[2090] 215
And, but that great command o'ersways the order,
She should in ground unsanctified have lodged[2091]
Till the last trumpet; for charitable prayers,[2092]
Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her:[2093]
Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants,[2094] 220
Her maiden strewments and the bringing home[2095]
Of bell and burial.
Laer. Must there no more be done?[2096]
First Priest. No more be done:[2088]
We should profane the service of the dead
To sing a requiem and such rest to her[2097] 225
As to peace-parted souls.
Laer. Lay her i' the earth:[2098]
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,
A ministering angel shall my sister be,
When thou liest howling.
Ham. What, the fair Ophelia! 230
Queen. [Scattering flowers] Sweets to the sweet: farewell![2099]
I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;[2100]
I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,
And not have strew'd thy grave.
Laer. O, treble woe[2101]
Fall ten times treble on that cursed head[2102] 235
Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense[2103]
Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,
Till I have caught her once more in mine arms: