Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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SCENE IX.
Enter Hamlet
&wlquo;Ham.
&wlquo;Now might I do it pat, now he is praying,
&wlquo;And now I'll do't—and so he goes to heav'n.—
&wlquo;And so am I reveng'd? that would be scann'd;
&wlquo;A villain kills my father, and for that
&wlquo;4 noteI, his fal'n son, do this same villain send
&wlquo;To heav'n—O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
&wlquo;He took my father grosly, full of bread,
&wlquo;With all his crimes broad blown, and flush as May;
&wlquo;5 note
And how his audit stands, who knows, save heaven?
&wlquo;But in our circumstance and course of thought,
&wlquo;'Tis heavy with him. Am I then reveng'd,
&wlquo;To take him in the purging of his soul,
&wlquo;When he is fit and season'd for his passage?
&wlquo;Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid bent;
&wlquo;When he is drunk, asleep, or in his rage,
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&wlquo;Or in th' incestuous pleasure of his bed;
&wlquo;At gaming, swearing, or about some act
&wlquo;That has no relish of salvation in't;
&wlquo;Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heav'n;
&wlquo;And that his soul may be as damn'd and black
&wlquo;As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays;
This physick but prolongs thy sickly days.
[Exit.
The King rises, and comes forward.
King.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
[Exit.
Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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