Page 321 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.

CAPTAIN
God buy you, sir.
[Exit.]

ROSENCRANTZ
Will’t please you go, my lord? [30]

HAMLET
I’ll be with you straight. Go a little before.

[Exeunt all but Hamlet.]
How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge. What is a man

If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. [35]
Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason

To fust in us unus’d. Now whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple [40]
Of thinking too precisely on th’event −

A thought which, quarter’d, hath but one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward − I do not know
Why yet I live to say this thing’s to do,
Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means [45]
To do’t. Examples gross as earth exhort me,

Witness this army of such mass and charge,
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff’d,

Makes mouths at the invisible event, [50]
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,
Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,

But greatly to find quarrel in a straw [55]
When honour’s at the stake. How stand I then,