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Recognizes him

Horatio -- or I do forget myself.

HORATIO The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.

HAMLET Sir, my good friend, I'll change that name with you164.

And what make you from165 Wittenberg, Horatio?-- Marcellus.

MARCELLUS My good lord.

To Barnardo

HAMLET I am very glad to see you.-- Good even167, sir.--

To Horatio

But what in faith make you from Wittenberg?

HORATIO A truant169 disposition, good my lord.

HAMLET I would not have your enemy say so,

Nor shall you do mine ear that 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 ere175 you depart.

HORATIO My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.

HAMLET I pray thee do not mock me, fellow student:

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

HORATIO Indeed, my lord, it followed hard179 upon.

HAMLET Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats180

Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Would I had met my dearest182 foe in heaven

Ere I had ever seen that day, Horatio.

My father, methinks I see my father.

HORATIO O, where, my lord?

HAMLET In my mind's eye, Horatio.

HORATIO I saw him once; he was a goodly king.

HAMLET He was a man, take him for all in all:



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