Hamlet

HORATIO O, day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

HAMLET And therefore as a stranger184 give it welcome.

Aside to Horatio?

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.-- But come,

Here, as before, never, so help you mercy187,

How strange or odd soe'er188 I bear myself --

As I perchance hereafter shall think meet

To put an antic190 disposition on --

That you, at such time seeing me, never shall,

With arms encumbered thus, or thus headshake192,

Or by pronouncing of some doubtful193 phrase,

As 'Well, we know' or 'We could, an if194 we would'

Or 'If we list to speak' or 'There be, an if they might'195

Or such ambiguous giving out, to note196

That you know aught of me: this not to do,

So grace and mercy at your most need help you. Swear.

GHOST Swear.

They swear

HAMLET Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!-- So, gentlemen,

With all my love I do commend me201 to you:

And what202 so poor a man as Hamlet is

May do t'express his love and friending203 to you,

God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together:

And still205 your fingers on your lips, I pray.

The time is out of joint206: O, cursed spite

That ever I was born to set it right!

Nay, come, let's go together.

Exeunt

Act 2 Scene 1