For.
Go, captain, from me greet the ^note Danish king;
Tell him that by his license Fortinbras
Craves ^note the conveyance of a promised march
Over his kingdom ^note. You know the rendezvous ^note.

If that his majesty would aught with us,
We shall express our duty ^note in his eye;
And let him know so.

Cap.
I will do't, my lord.

For.
Go softly ^note on. [Exeunt ^note Fortinbras and Soldiers. Enter ^note Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and others.

Ham.
Good sir, whose powers are these?

Cap.
They ^note are of Norway, sir.

Ham.
How purposed ^note, sir, I pray you?

Cap.
Against ^note some part of Poland.

Ham.
Who commands them, sir? ^note

Cap.
The nephew to ^note old Norway, Fortinbras.

Ham.
Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,
Or for some frontier?

Cap.
Truly to speak ^note, and with no ^note addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, ^note I would not farm it;
Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
A ranker rate, should it be sold ^note in fee.

Ham.
Why, then the Polack never will defend it.

Cap.
Yes, it is ^note already garrison'd.

Ham.
Two ^note thousand souls and twenty ^note thousand ducats
Will not debate the question of this straw: ^note
This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,
That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.

Cap.
God be wi' you ^note, sir. [Exit.

Ros.
Will't please you go, my lord?

Ham.
I'll ^note be with you straight ^note. Go a little before. [Exeunt ^note all but Hamlet.
How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like reason
To fust ^note in us unused. Now, whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on the event,—
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward,—I do not know
Why yet I live ^note to say ‘this thing's to do,’
Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means,
To do 't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:
Witness this army, of such mass and charge,
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd
Makes mouths at the invisible event,
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death and danger dare,

Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir ^{note note} without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,
That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep, while to my shame I see
The imminent ^note death of twenty thousand men,
That for a fantasy and trick of fame
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot ^note
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain ^note? O, ^note from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! ^note [Exit. ^note

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