Hamlet

I shall not look upon his like again.

HORATIO My lord, I think I saw him yesternight190.

HAMLET Saw who?

HORATIO My lord, the king your father.

HAMLET The king my father?

HORATIO Season your admiration194 for a while

With an attent ear till I may deliver195,

Upon the witness of these gentlemen,

This marvel to you.

HAMLET For heaven's love, let me hear.

HORATIO Two nights together had these gentlemen,

Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch,

In the dead waste201 and middle of the night,

Been thus encountered. A figure like your father,

Armed at all points exactly, cap-a-pie203,

Appears before them, and with solemn march

Goes205 slow and stately: by them thrice he walked,

By their oppressed and fear-surprised206 eyes

Within his truncheon's length, whilst they, distilled207

Almost to jelly with the act208 of fear

Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me

In dreadful210 secrecy impart they did,

And I with them the third night kept the watch,

Where, as they had delivered, 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 like215.

HAMLET But where was this?

MARCELLUS My lord, upon the platform217 where we watched.

HAMLET Did you not speak to it?