644       Hora. It beckins you to goe away with it
645      As if it some impartment did desire
646      To you alone.
647       Mar. Looke with what curteous action
648      It waues you to a more remooued ground,
649      But doe not goe with it.
650       Hora. No, by no meanes.
651       Ham. It will not speake, then I will followe it.
652       Hora. Doe not my Lord.
653       Ham. Why what should be the feare,
654      I doe not set my life at a pinnes fee,
655      And for my soule, what can it doe to that                               [D2
656      Being a thing immortall as it selfe;
657      It waues me forth againe, Ile followe it.
658       Hora. What if it tempt you toward the flood my Lord,
659      Or to the dreadfull somnet of the cleefe
660      That bettles ore his base into the sea,
661      And there assume some other horrable forme
662      Which might depriue your soueraigntie of reason,
663      And draw you into madnes, thinke of it,
663+1    The very place puts toyes of desperation
663+2    Without more motiue, into euery braine
663+3    That lookes so many fadoms to the sea
663+4    And heares it rore beneath.
664       Ham. It waues me still,
664      Goe on, Ile followe thee.
665       Mar. You shall not goe my Lord.
666       Ham. Hold of your hands.
667       Hora. Be rulíd, you shall not goe.
668       Ham. My fate cries out
669      And makes each petty arture in this body
670      As hardy as the Nemeon Lyons nerue;
671      Still am I cald, vnhand me Gentlemen
672      By heauen Ile make a ghost of him that lets me,
673      I say away, goe on, Ile followe thee.      Exit Ghost and Hamlet.

675       Hora. He waxes desperate with imagion.
676       Mar. Lets followe, tis not fit thus to obey him.
677       Hora. Haue after, to what issue will this come?
678       Mar. Something is rotten in the state of Denmarke.
679       Hora. Heauen will direct it.
680       Mar. Nay lets follow him.                  Exeunt.

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