But since, so jump upon this bloody question,
You from the Polack wars, and you from England,
Are here arriv'd, give order that these bodies
High on a stage be placed to the view;⁠392
And let me speak to the yet unknowing world
How these things came about: so shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts.
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;⁠396
Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause.
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on the inventors' heads; all this can I
Truly deliver.

Fort.⁠Let us haste to hear it,⁠400
And call the noblest to the audience.
For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune;
I have some rights of memory in this kingdom.
Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.⁠404

Hor. Of that I shall have also cause to speak.
And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more:
But let this same be presently performed.
Even while men's minds are wild, lest more mischance⁠408
On plots and errors happen.

Fort.⁠Let four captains
Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on.
To have prov'd most royally: and, for his passage,⁠412
The soldiers' music and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him.