| Horatio:
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
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. But come; here, as before, never, so help
you mercy, how strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, as I
perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic
disposition on, that you, at such times seeing me, never
shall, with arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake, or by
pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, as 'Well, well, we
know,' or 'We could, an if we would,' or 'If we list to
speak,' or "There be, an if they might,' or such ambiguous
giving out, to note that you know aught of me: this not to
do, so grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear.
Ghost: [Beneath]
Swear.
Hamlet: Rest,
rest, perturbed spirit! [They swear] So, gentlemen,
with all my love I do commend me to you and what so poor a
man as Hamlet is may do, to express his love and friending
to you, God willing, shall not lack. Let us go together;
and still your fingers on your lips, I pray. 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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