As hush as deaths anon the dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region;[b 1] so, after Pyrrhus' pause,
Aroused[a 1] vengeance sets him new a-work;
And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall 520
On Mars's armour,[a 2] forged for proof eterne,
With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword
Now fails on Priam.
Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune![a 3] All you gods,
In general synod take away her power; 525
Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven
As low as to the fiends!
Pol. This is too long.
Ham. It shall to the barber's, with your beard— 530
Prithee, say on; he's for a jig[b 2] or a tale of
bawdry, or he sleeps: say on; come to
Hecuba.
First Play. But who, O, who[a 4] had seen the mobled[a 5][b 3]
queen[a 6]— 535
Ham. "The mobled queen?"
Pol. That's good; "mobled queen" is good.[a 7]
- ↑ 519. Aroused] Collier; A rowsed Q, F.
- ↑ 521. Mars's armour] Capell, Marses Armor Q, Mars his Armours F.
- ↑ 524. strumpet, Fortune] hyphened in F.
- ↑ 534. who, O, who] F, who, a woe Q, who, ah woe Q 6.
- ↑ 534, 536. mobled] Q, Ff 2–4; inobled F; ennobl'd Capell.
- ↑ 536. queen?] F, Queene. Q.
- ↑ 537. mobled . . . good] omitted in Q.
- ↑ 518. region] Clar. Press: "Originally a division of the sky marked out by the Roman augurs. In later times the atmosphere was divided into three regions—upper, middle, and lower." Used by Shakespeare for the space of air, as in Romeo and Juliet, II. ii. 21.
- ↑ 531. jig] a ludicrous metrical composition, sometimes given on stages by the clown, sometimes, as Cotgrave says, "at the end of an Enterlude, wherein some pretie Knaverie is acted."
- ↑ 534. mobled] muffled. Warhurton quotes from Sandys' Travels "Their [Turkish women's] heads and faces are so mabled in fine linen." Farmer quotes Shirley, Gentleman of Venice: "The moon does mobble up herself."
