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[ACT I.
HAMLET

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets[b 1] me: ⁠85
I say, away!—Go on; I'll follow thee.
⁠[Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet.

Hor. He waxes desperate with imagination.

Mar. Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.

Hor. Have after.—To what issue will this come?

Mar. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. ⁠90

Hor. Heaven will direct it.[b 2]

Mar. ⁠Nay, let's follow him.
⁠[Exeunt.


SCENE V.—Another Part of the Platform.[a 1]

Enter Ghost and Hamlet.

Ham. Whither[a 2] wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further.

Ghost. Mark me.

Ham. ⁠I will.

Ghost. ⁠My hour is almost come,
When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself.

Ham. ⁠Alas, poor ghost!

Ghost. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing ⁠5
To what I shall unfold.

Ham. ⁠Speak;[b 3] I am bound[b 4] to hear.

  1. ↑ Scene V.] Capell.
  2. ↑ 1. Whither] Q 1, Q; Where F.
  1. ↑ 85. lets] hinders.
  2. ↑ 91. it] the issue of line 89.
  3. ↑ 6, 7. Speak . . . shalt hear] These words are playfully quoted in Fletcher's The Woman-Hater (about 1607), II. i. (vol. i. p. 37, ed. Dyce).
  4. ↑ 6. bound] Delius supposes that Hamlet uses this word in the sense of ready addressed, while the Ghost takes it as meaning bound in duty.
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