Into the hand of justice. —You committed me;
For which I do commit into your hand
Th’unstain'd sword that you have us'd to bear;
With this remembrance, that you use the same
With a like bold, just, and impartial spirit,
As

you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand,
You shall be as a father to my youth :
My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ears
And I will stoop and humble my intents
To your well-practis'd wise directions.
And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you;
My father is gone wild into his grave;
For in his tomb lie my affections;
And with his spirit sadly I survive,
To mock the expectations of the world ;
To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
Rotten opinion, which hath writ me down
After my seeming. Though my tide of blood:
Hąth proudly flow'd in vanity till now;:
Now doth it turn and ebb to the sea ,
Where it shall mingle witli tlie state of floods g.
And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
Now call we our high court of parliament:
And let us chuse such limbs of noble council,
That the great body of our estate may go
In equal rank with the best-governd nation ;
That war or peace , or both at once, may

be As things acquainted and familiar to us, In which

father , shall have fore-most hand. Our coronation done, we will accite (As I before remember'd) all our state, And (Heav'n consigning to my good intents) No prince, nor peer, shall have just cause to say, Heav'n shorten Harry's happy life one day.

C H A P. X II.

Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop

of Ely. Cant. Mx lord, I'll tell you; that self billis urg'd Which in the eleventh year of th’ last king's reign, Was like, and had indeed against us passid, But that the scrambling and unquiet time Did puslı it out of further question.

Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now? Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against

We lose the better half of our possession:
For all the temporallands which men devout
By testament have given to the church,
Would they strip from us; being valu'd thus;
As much as would maintain to the king's honour ;
Full fifteen earls, and fifteen hundred knights,
Six thousand and two hundred good esquires ;
And to relief of lazars and weak

age
Of indigent faint souls, past corporal toil,
A hundred alms-houses right well supply'd ;
And to the coffers of the king , beside,
A thousand pounds by th' year. Thus runs the bill.

Ely. This would drink deep.
Cant. 'Twould drink the

cup

and all. Ely. But what prevention ? Cant. The king is full of grace and fair regard. Ely. And a true lover of the holy church. Cant. The courses of his youth promis'd it not; The breath no sooner left his father's body, But that his wildness mortify'd in him, Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment, Consideration, like an angel, came, And whipp'd th' offending Adam out of him, Leaving his body as a paradise, T' invelope and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a dden scholar made : Never came reformation in a flood

With such a heady current , scouring faults:
Nor ever hydra-headed wilfulness
So soon did lose his seat, and all at once
As in this king.

Ely. We're blessed in the change.

Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity,
And, all-admiring, with an inward wish
You would desire, the king were made a prelate.
Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
You'd say, it had been all in all his study.
List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle rendered you in music.
Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot us it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter. When he speaks,
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still;
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
To steal bis sweet and honey'd sentences :
So that the act, and practic part of lise,
Must be the mistress to this theorique.
Which is a wonder how his Grace should glean it,
Since his addiction was to courses vainz
His companies unletter'), rude and shallow;"
His hours fill'd up with riots, banqnets, sports ;:
And never noted in him any study,
Any retirement, any sequestration
From open haunts, and popularity.
Ely. The strawberry grows underncath the

nettle,
And wholesome berries thrive, and ripen best,
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:
And so the prince obscur'd his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,
Grew like a summer grass, fastest by night,
Unseen , yet crescive in his faculty.

Cant. It must be so: for miracles are ceas'd; And therefore we must needs admit the means, How things are perfected. SHAKESPEAKE. CII A P. XI I I.

ever.

Hamlet and Horatio. Hor.Hari, to your lordship!

Ham. I am glad to see you well;
Horatio-or I do forget myself.

Hor. The same, my Lord, and your poor servant
Ham. Sir, my good friend ; I'll change that

name with you. And what makes you from Wittenberg, Horatio?

Hor. A truant disposition, good my lord.

Ham. I would not hear your enemy say so; Nor shall you do mine-ear ibat violence, To make it truster of your own report Against yourself. I know you are no truant; But what is your affair in Elsinore ? We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. Hor. My lord, I cane to see your father's fu

neral. Ham. I pr'ythee do not mock me, fellow-stu

dent;
I think it was to see my mother's wedding.

Hor. Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon't.
Ham. Thrift, thrist, Horatio ; the funeral bak'd

meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage-tables.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heav'n,
Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio !
My father-methinks I see my father.

'Hor. Oh! where, my lord ?
Ham. In

my
mind's

eye,

Horatio. Hor. I saw'him once, he was a goodly king. Ham. He was a man,

take bin for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

Hor. My lord, I think I saw bim yesternight,
Ham. Saw ! -who?
Hor. My lord, the king your father!
Ham. The king my father!
Hor. Season your admiration but a while

With an attentive ear; till I deliver ,
Upon the witness of these gentlemen,
This marvel to you.

Ham. For Heaven's love , let me hear.

Hor. Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, In the dead waste, and middle of the night, Been thus encounter'd: A figure, like your father, Arm'd at all points exactly, cap-à-pe , Appears before them, and with solemn march Goes slow and stately by them! thrice lie walk'd By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes Within his truncheon's length; whilst they (dis

tilld
Almost to jelly with th' effect of sear)
Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to mo
In dreadful secrecy impart they did,
And I with them the third night kept the watch:
Wbere, as they had deliver'd, both in time,
Form of the thing , each word made true and good,
The apparition comes. I knew your father;
These hands are not more like.

Ham. But where was this?
Hor. My lord, upon the platform where we

watch'd.
Ham. Did you speak to it?

Hor. My lord, I did: But answer made it none. Yet once methought It lifted up its head, and did address It self to motion , like as it would speak, But even then the morning cock crew loud; And at the sound it shrunk in haste away, And vanish'd from our sight.

Ham. 'Tis very strange.

Hor. As I do live, my honour'd Lord, 'tis true; And did think it writ down in our duty To let you know of it.

Ham. Indeed, indeed, Sir, but this troubles mo. Hold you the watch to night?

Hor. We do, my lord.
Ham, Arm'd, say you?

we