Page 218 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

HORATIO

I saw him once; a was a goodly king.

HAMLET
A was a man, take him for all in all:
I shall not look upon his like again.

HORATIO
My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.

HAMLET
Saw? Who?

HORATIO

My lord, the king your father. [190]

HAMLET

The king my father?

HORATIO
Season your admiration for a while
With an attent ear till I may deliver
Upon the witness of these gentlemen
This marvel to you.

HAMLET

For God’s love let me hear! [195]

HORATIO

Two nights together had these gentlemen,
Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch
In the dead waste and middle of the night

Been thus ecounter’d: a figure like your father
Armed at point exactly, cap-à-pie, [200]
Appears before them, and with solemn march
Goes slow and stately by them; thrice he walk’d
By their oppress’d and fear-surprised eyes