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So hallowed, and fo gratious is that time. Hora. So haue I heard and doe in part belieue it, But looke the morne in ruffet mantle clad Walkes ore the dewe of yon high Eastward hill Breake we our watch vp and by my aduife Let vs impart what we haue feene to night Vnto young Hamlet, for vppon my life This fpirit dumb to vs, will speake to him: Doe you confent we fhall acquaint him with it As needfull in our loues, fitting our duty. Mar. Lets doo't I pray, and I this morning knowe Where we shall find him moft conuenient. Exeunt. Florib. Enter Claudius, King of Denmarke, Gertradthe Queene, Counfaile: as Polomus, and his Sonne Laertes, Hamlet, Cum Alys. Claud. Though yet of Hamlet our deare brothers death The memorie be greene, and that it vs befitted To beare our harts in griefe,and our whole Kingdome, To be contracted in one browe of woe Yet fo farre hath difcretion fought with nature, That we with wifeft forrowe thinke on him Together with remembrance of our felues: Th'imperiall ioyntreffe to this warlike ftate Therefore our fometime Sifter, now our Queene Haue we as twere with a defeated ioy With an aufpitious, and a dropping eye, ohn bak With mirth in funerall, and with dirdge in marriage, WV In equall fcale waighing delight and dole Taken to wife: nor haue we heerein bard Your better wifdomes, which haue freely gone With this affaire along (for all our thankes) Now followes that you knowe young Fortinbraffe, Holding a weake fuppofall of our worth Or thinking by our late deare brothers death Our flate to be difioynt, and out of frame Coleagued with this dreame of his aduantage He hath not faild to peftur vs with meflage