Fort. O imperious death! how many Princes
Hast thou at one draft bloudily shot to death?
Ambass. Our ambassie that we haue brought from England,
Where be these Princes that should heare vs speake? 115
O most most vnlooked for time! vnhappy country.
Hor. Content your selues, Ile shew to all, the ground,
The first beginning of this Tragedy:
Let there a scaffold be rearde vp in the market place,
And let the State of the world be there: 120
Where you shall heare such a sad story tolde,
That neuer mortall man could more vnfolde.
Fort. I haue some rights of memory to this kingdome,
Which now to claime my leisure doth inuite mee:
Let foure of our chiefest Captaines 125
Beare Hamlet like a souldier to his graue:
For he was likely, had he liued,
To a prou'd most royall.
Take vp the bodie, such a fight as this
Becomes the fieldes, but here doth much amisse. 130
Finis.
FOOTNOTES:
[2422] Leartes] Leartes, B. Mus. copy.
newes] news B. Mus. copy.
[2423] God] God, B. Mus. copy.
moneths] months B. Mus. copy.