Hamlet

but my shame and the odd138 hits.

OSRIC Shall I redeliver you139 e'en so?

HAMLET To this effect, sir, after what flourish140 your nature will.

OSRIC I commend142 my duty to your lordship.

HAMLET Yours, yours.--

[Exit Osric]

He does well to commend it himself, there are no tongues

else for's turn145.

HORATIO This lapwing146 runs away with the shell on his head.

HAMLET He did comply with his dug147, before he sucked it.

Thus has he -- and many more of the same bevy148 that I know the drossy age dotes on -- only got the tune149 of the time and outward habit of encounter, a kind of yeasty collection150, which carries them through and through the most fond151 and winnowed opinions; and do but blow them to their trials, the152

bubbles are out.

HORATIO You will lose this wager, my lord.

HAMLET I do not think so: since he went into France, I have been in continual practice; I shall win at the odds156. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart, but it is

no matter.

HORATIO Nay, good my lord--

HAMLET It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving160

as would perhaps trouble a woman.

HORATIO If your mind dislike anything, obey it: I will forestall their repair163 hither, and say you are not fit.

HAMLET Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special164

providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it165 be now, 'tis not to come: if it be not to come, it will be now: if it be not now, yet

it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of167

what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes168?

Enter King, Queen, Laertes and Lords, with [Osric and] other Attendants with foils and gauntlets, a table and flagons of wine on it

KING Come, Hamlet, come and take this hand from me.

Puts Laertes' hand into Hamlet's

HAMLET Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong, But pardon't, as you are a gentleman.

This presence172 knows, And you must needs have heard, how I am punished

With sore distraction. What I have done

That might your nature, honour and exception175