Текст книги "Hamlet. Macbeth / Гамлет. Макбет"
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Автор книги: Уильям Шекспир
Жанр: Зарубежная драматургия, Зарубежная литература
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A plain in Denmark
Enter Fortinbras and Forces marching
Fortinbras
Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish King
Tell him that by his license, Fortinbras
Craves the conveyance of a promis'd march
Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.
If that his Majesty would aught with us,
We shall express our duty in his eye;
And let him know so.
Captain
I will do't, my lord.
Fortinbras
Go softly on.
[Exeunt all but the Captain]
[Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern]
Hamlet
Good sir, whose powers are these?
Captain
They are of Norway, sir.
Hamlet
How purpos'd, sir, I pray you?
Captain
Against some part of Poland.
Hamlet
Who commands them, sir?
Captain
The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras.
Hamlet
Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,
Or for some frontier?
Captain
Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
Hamlet
Why, then the Polack never will defend it.
Captain
Yes, it is already garrison'd.
Hamlet
Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
Will not debate the question of this straw!
This is th'imposthume of much wealth and peace,
That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.
Captain
God b' wi' you, sir.
[Exit]
Rosencrantz
Will't please you go, my lord?
Hamlet
I'll be with you straight. Go a little before.
[Exeunt 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 godlike reason
To fust in us unus'd. Now whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on th'event, —
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but
one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward, – I do not know
Why yet I live 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 eggshell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir 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 death of twenty thousand men
That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth.
[Exit]
Scene VElsinore. A room in the Castle
Enter Queen, Horatio and a Gentleman
Queen
I will not speak with her.
Gentleman
She is importunate, indeed distract.
Her mood will needs be pitied.
Queen
What would she have?
Gentleman
She speaks much of her father; says she hears
There's tricks i' th' world, and hems,
and beats her heart,
Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt,
That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing,
Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
The hearers to collection; they aim at it,
And botch the words up fit to their own
thoughts,
Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures
yield them,
Indeed would make one think there might
be thought,
Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.
Horatio
Twere good she were spoken with, for
she may strew
Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
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Queen
Let her come in.
[Exit Horatio]
To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
[Enter Ophelia]
Ophelia
Where is the beauteous Majesty of Denmark?
Queen
How now, Ophelia?
Ophelia
[Sings]
How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff
And his sandal shoon.
Queen
Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?
Ophelia
Say you? Nay, pray you mark.
[Sings]
He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone,
At his head a grass green turf,
At his heels a stone.
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Queen
Nay, but Ophelia —
Ophelia
Pray you mark.
[Sings]
White his shroud as the mountain snow.
[Enter King]
Queen
Alas, look here, my lord!
Ophelia
[Sings]
Larded all with sweet flowers;
Which bewept to the grave did not go
With true-love showers.
King
How do you, pretty lady?
Ophelia
Well, God dild you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at your table!
King
Conceit upon her father.
Ophelia
Pray you, let's have no words of this; but when they ask you what it means, say you this:
[Sings]
Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose and donn'd his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber door,
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.
King
Pretty Ophelia!
Ophelia
Indeed la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't.
[Sings]
By Gis and by Saint Charity,
Alack, and fie for shame!
Young men will do't if they come to't;
By Cock, they are to blame.
Quoth she, before you tumbled me,
You promis'd me to wed.
So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,
An thou hadst not come to my bed.
King
How long hath she been thus?
Ophelia
I hope all will be well. We must be patient. But I cannot choose but weep, to think they would lay him i' th' cold ground. My brother shall know of it. And so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night.
[Exit]
King
Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you.
[Exit Horatio]
O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs
All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions. First, her father slain;
Next, your son gone; and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick, and unwholesome in their thoughts
and whispers
For good Polonius' death; and we have
done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him. Poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgement,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts.
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,
Like to a murdering piece, in many places
Gives me superfluous death.
[A noise within]
Queen
Alack, what noise is this?
King
Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.
[Enter a Gentleman]
What is the matter?
Gentleman
Save yourself, my lord.
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,
O'erbears your offices. The rabble call him lord,
And, as the world were now but to begin,
Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
The ratifiers and props of every word,
They cry 'Choose we! Laertes shall be king!'
Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it
to the clouds,
'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king.'
Queen
How cheerfully on the false trail they cry.
O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs.
[A noise within]
King
The doors are broke.
[Enter Laertes, armed; Danes following]
Laertes
Where is this king? – Sirs, stand you all without.
Danes
No, let's come in.
Laertes
I pray you, give me leave.
Danes
We will, we will.
[They retire without the door]
Laertes
I thank you. Keep the door. O thou vile king,
Give me my father.
Queen
Calmly, good Laertes.
Laertes
That drop of blood that's calm proclaims
me bastard;
Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot
Even here between the chaste unsmirched brow
Of my true mother.
King
What is the cause, Laertes,
That thy rebellion looks so giant-like? —
Let him go, Gertrude. Do not fear our person.
There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would,
Acts little of his will.-Tell me, Laertes,
Why thou art thus incens'd.-Let him go,
Gertrude: —
Speak, man.
Laertes
Where is my father?
King
Dead.
Queen
But not by him.
King
Let him demand his fill.
Laertes
How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with.
To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation. To this point I stand,
That both the worlds, I give to negligence,
Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd
Most throughly for my father.
King
Who shall stay you?
Laertes
My will, not all the world.
And for my means, I'll husband them so well,
They shall go far with little.
King
Good Laertes,
If you desire to know the certainty
Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge
That, sweepstake, you will draw both friend and foe,
Winner and loser?
Laertes
None but his enemies.
King
Will you know them then?
Laertes
To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms;
And, like the kind life-rendering pelican,
Repast them with my blood.
King
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am guiltless of your father's death,
And am most sensibly in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement 'pear
As day does to your eye.
Danes
[Within] Let her come in.
Laertes
How now! What noise is that?
Re-enter Ophelia, fantastically
dressed with straws and flowers
O heat, dry up my brains. Tears seven times salt,
Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye.
By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,
Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!
Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!
O heavens, is't possible a young maid's wits
Should be as mortal as an old man's life?
Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine,
It sends some precious instance of itself
After the thing it loves.
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Ophelia
[Sings]
They bore him barefac'd on the bier,
Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny
And on his grave rain'd many a tear. —
Fare you well, my dove!
Laertes
Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,
It could not move thus.
Ophelia
You must sing 'Down a-down, and you call him a-down-a.' O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false steward that stole his master's daughter.
Laertes
This nothing's more than matter.
Ophelia
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
Laertes
A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.
Ophelia
There's fennel for you, and columbines. There's rue for you; and here's some for me. We may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they wither'd all when my father died. They say he made a good end.
[Sings]
For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
Laertes
Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself
She turns to favour and to prettiness.
Ophelia
[Sings]
And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, no, he is dead,
Go to thy death-bed,
He never will come again.
His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll.
He is gone, he is gone,
And we cast away moan.
God ha' mercy on his soul.
And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God
b' wi' ye.
[Exit]
Laertes
Do you see this, O God?
King
Laertes, I must commune with your grief,
Or you deny me right. Go but apart,
Make choice of whom your wisest friends
you will,
And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me.
If by direct or by collateral hand
They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give,
Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours
To you in satisfaction; but if not,
Be you content to lend your patience to us,
And we shall jointly labour with your soul
To give it due content.
Laertes
Let this be so;
His means of death, his obscure burial, —
No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,
No noble rite, nor formal ostentation, —
Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,
That I must call't in question.
King
So you shall.
And where th'offence is let the great axe fall.
I pray you go with me.
[Exeunt]
Scene VIAnother room in the Castle
Enter Horatio and a Servant
Horatio
What are they that would speak with me?
Servant
Sailors, sir. They say they have letters for you.
Horatio
Let them come in.
[Exit Servant]
I do not know from what part of the world
I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.
[Enter Sailors]
First Sailor
God bless you, sir.
Horatio
Let him bless thee too.
First Sailor
He shall, sir, and't please him. There's a letter for you, sir. It comes from th'ambassador that was bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is.
Horatio
[Reads] 'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked this, give these fellows some means to the King. They have letters for him. Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded them. On the instant they got clear of our ship, so I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with me like thieves of mercy. But they knew what they did; I am to do a good turn for them. Let the King have the letters I have sent, and repair thou to me with as much haste as thou wouldst fly death. I have words to speak in thine ear will make thee dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter. These good fellows will bring thee where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course for England: of them I have much to tell thee. Farewell.
He that thou knowest thine,
Hamlet.'
Come, I will give you way for these your letters,
And do't the speedier, that you may direct me
To him from whom you brought them.
[Exeunt]
Scene VIIAnother room in the Castle
Enter King and Laertes
King
Now must your conscience my acquittance seal,
And you must put me in your heart for friend,
Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,
That he which hath your noble father slain
Pursu'd my life.
Laertes
It well appears. But tell me
Why you proceeded not against these feats,
So crimeful and so capital in nature,
As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,
You mainly were stirr'd up.
King
O, for two special reasons,
Which may to you, perhaps, seem much
unsinew'd,
But yet to me they are strong. The Queen
his mother
Lives almost by his looks; and for myself, —
My virtue or my plague, be it either which, —
She's so conjunctive to my life and soul,
That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,
I could not but by her. The other motive,
Why to a public count I might not go,
Is the great love the general gender bear him,
Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
Would like the spring that turneth wood
to stone,
Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows,
Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,
Would have reverted to my bow again,
And not where I had aim'd them.
Laertes
And so have I a noble father lost,
A sister driven into desperate terms,
Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
Stood challenger on mount of all the age
For her perfections. But my revenge will come.
King
Break not your sleeps for that. You must
not think
That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
That we can let our beard be shook with danger,
And think it pastime. You shortly
shall hear more.
I lov'd your father, and we love ourself,
And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine —
[Enter a Messenger]
How now? What news?
Messenger
Letters, my lord, from Hamlet
This to your Majesty; this to the Queen.
King
From Hamlet! Who brought them?
Messenger
Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not.
They were given me by Claudio. He receiv'd them
Of him that brought them.
King
Laertes, you shall hear them.
Leave us.
[Exit Messenger]
[Reads] 'High and mighty, you shall know I am set naked on your kingdom. Tomorrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes. When I shall, first asking your pardon thereunto, recount the occasions of my sudden and more strange return.
Hamlet.'
What should this mean? Are all the rest
come back?
Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
Laertes
Know you the hand?
King
'Tis Hamlet's character. 'Naked!'
And in a postscript here he says 'alone.'
Can you advise me?
Laertes
I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come,
It warms the very sickness in my heart
That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
'Thus diest thou.'
King
If it be so, Laertes, —
As how should it be so? How otherwise? —
Will you be rul'd by me?
Laertes
Ay, my lord;
So you will not o'errule me to a peace.
King
To thine own peace. If he be now return'd,
As checking at his voyage, and that he means
No more to undertake it, I will work him
To an exploit, now ripe in my device,
Under the which he shall not choose but fall;
And for his death no wind shall breathe,
But even his mother shall uncharge the practice
And call it accident.
Laertes
My lord, I will be rul'd;
The rather if you could devise it so
That I might be the organ.
King
It falls right.
You have been talk'd of since your travel much,
And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality
Wherein they say you shine. Your sum of parts
Did not together pluck such envy from him
As did that one, and that, in my regard,
Of the unworthiest siege.
Laertes
What part is that, my lord?
King
A very riband in the cap of youth,
Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness.
Two months since
Here was a gentleman of Normandy, —
I've seen myself, and serv'd against, the French,
And they can well on horseback, but this gallant
Had witchcraft in't. He grew unto his seat,
And to such wondrous doing brought his horse,
As had he been incorps'd and demi-natur'd
With the brave beast. So far he topp'd
my thought
That I in forgery of shapes and tricks,
Come short of what he did.
Laertes
A Norman was't?
King
A Norman.
Laertes
Upon my life, Lamord.
King
The very same.
Laertes
I know him well. He is the brooch indeed
And gem of all the nation.
King
He made confession of you,
And gave you such a masterly report
For art and exercise in your defence,
And for your rapier most especially,
That he cried out 'twould be a sight indeed
If one could match you. The scrimers
of their nation
He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye,
If you oppos'd them. Sir, this report of his
Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy
That he could nothing do but wish and beg
Your sudden coming o'er to play with him.
Now, out of this, —
Laertes
What out of this, my lord?
King
Laertes, was your father dear to you?
Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
A face without a heart?
Laertes
Why ask you this?
King
Not that I think you did not love your father,
But that I know love is begun by time,
And that I see, in passages of proof,
Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
There lives within the very flame of love
A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;
And nothing is at a like goodness still,
For goodness, growing to a pleurisy,
Dies in his own too much. That we would do,
We should do when we would; for this
'would' changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh
That hurts by easing. But to the quick o' th'ulcer:
Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake
To show yourself your father's son in deed,
More than in words?
Laertes
To cut his throat i' th' church.
King
No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;
Revenge should have no bounds. But good Laertes,
Will you do this, keep close within your chamber.
Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home:
We'll put on those shall praise your excellence,
And set a double varnish on the fame
The Frenchman gave you, bring you
in fine together
And wager on your heads. He, being remiss,
Most generous, and free from all contriving,
Will not peruse the foils; so that with ease,
Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
A sword unbated, and in a pass of practice,
Requite him for your father.
Laertes
I will do't.
And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword.
I bought an unction of a mountebank
So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,
Collected from all simples that have virtue
Under the moon, can save the thing from death
This is but scratch'd withal. I'll touch my point
With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.
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King
Let's further think of this,
Weigh what convenience both of time and means
May fit us to our shape. If this should fail,
And that our drift look through our
bad performance.
'Twere better not assay'd. Therefore this project
Should have a back or second, that might hold
If this did blast in proof. Soft, let me see.
We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings, —
I ha't! When in your motion you are hot and dry,
As make your bouts more violent to that end,
And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepar'd him
A chalice for the nonce; whereon but sipping,
If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,
Our purpose may hold there.
[Enter Queen]
How now, sweet Queen?
Queen
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow. Your sister's drown'd, Laertes.
Laertes
Drown'd! O, where?
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Queen
There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoary leaves in the glassy stream.
There with fantastic garlands did she make
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers
call them.
There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes
spread wide,
And mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up,
Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element. But long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
Laertes
Alas, then she is drown'd?
Queen
Drown'd, drown'd.
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Laertes
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears. But yet
It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
Let shame say what it will. When these are gone,
The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord,
I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,
But that this folly douts it.
[Exit]
King
Let's follow, Gertrude;
How much I had to do to calm his rage!
Now fear I this will give it start again;
Therefore let's follow.
[Exeunt]
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