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HAMLET
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. [175]
But come,
Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
How strange or odd some’er I bear myself −
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on − [180]
That you, at such time seeing me, never shall,
With arms encumber’d thus, or this head-shake,
Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,
As ‘Well, we know’, or ‘We could and if we would’,
Or ‘If we list to speak’, or ‘There be and if they might’, [185]
Or such ambiguous giving out, to note
That you know aught of me − this do swear,
So grace and mercy at your most need help you.
GHOST
Swear.
[They swear.]
HAMLET
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit. So, gentlemen, [190]
With all my love I do commend me to you;
And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
May do t’express his love and friending to you,
God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together.
And still your fingers on your lips, I pray. [195]
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right.
Nay, come, let’s go together.
Exeunt.