Third Soliloquy (Rogue and Peasant Slave)
II. ii. 543-601-- 1589-1645 1589 Ham. ...{God buy to you,} <God buy'ye:> now I am alone, 1590 O what a rogue and pesant slaue am I. 1591 Is it not monstrous that this player heere 1592 But in a fixion, in a dreame of passion 1593 Could force his soule so to his {owne} <whole> conceit 1594 That from her working all {the} <his> visage {wand,} <warm'd;> 1595 Teares in his eyes, distraction {in his} <in's> aspect, 1596 A broken voyce, {an} <and> his whole function suting 1597 With formes to his conceit; and all for nothing, 1598 For Hecuba. 1599 What's Hecuba to him, or he to {her} <Hecuba>, 1600 That he should weepe for her? what would he doe 1601 Had he the {motiue, and that} <Motiue and the Cue> for passion 1602 That I haue? he would drowne the stage with teares, 1603 And cleaue the generall eare with horrid speech, 1604 Make mad the guilty, and appale the free, 1605 Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeede 1606 The very {faculties} <faculty> of eyes and eares; yet I, 1607 A dull and muddy metteld raskall peake, 1608 Like Iohn-a-dreames, vnpregnant of my cause, 1609 And can say nothing; no not for a King, 1610 Vpon whose property and most deare life, 1611 A damn'd defeate was made: am I a coward, 1612 Who cals me villaine, breakes my pate a crosse, 1613 Pluckes off my beard, and blowes it in my face, 1614 Twekes me by {the nose,} <th'Nose?> giues me the lie i'th thraote 1615 As deepe as to the lunges, who does me this, 1616 Hah, {s'wounds} <Why> I should take it: for it cannot be 1617 But I am pidgion liuerd, and lack gall 1618 {G1} To make oppression bitter, or ere this 1619 I should {a} <haue> fatted all the region kytes 1620 With this slaues offall, {bloody,} <bloudy: a> baudy villaine, 1621 Remorslesse, trecherous, lecherous, kindlesse villaine. 1622 <Oh Vengeance!> 1623 {Why} <Who?> what an Asse am I, <I sure,> this is most braue, 1624 That I the sonne of {a} <the> deere murthered, 1625 Prompted to my reuenge by heauen and hell, 1626 Must like a whore vnpacke my hart with words, 1627-8 And fall a cursing like a very drabbe; | a {stallyon,} <Scullion?> fie vppont, foh. 1628-9 About my {braines; hum,} <Braine.> | I haue heard, 1629 That guilty creatures sitting at a play, 1630 Haue by the very cunning of the scene, 1631 Beene strooke so to the soule, that presently 1632 They haue proclaim'd their malefactions: 1633 For murther, though it haue no tongue will speake 1634 With most miraculous organ: Ile haue these Players 1635 Play something like the {murther} <murder> of my father 1636 Before mine Vncle, Ile obserue his lookes, 1637 Ile tent him to the quicke, if {a doe} <he but> blench 1638 I know my course. The spirit that I haue seene 1639 May be {a deale} <the Diuell>, and the {deale} <Diuel> hath power 1640 T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps, 1641 Out of my weakenes, and my melancholy, 1642 As he is very potent with such spirits, 1643 Abuses me to damne me; Ile haue grounds 1644 More relatiue then this, the play's the thing 1645 Wherein Ile catch the conscience of the King. Exit. |