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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.
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