Ber. In the same figure,[a 1] like the king that's dead.
Mar. Thou art a scholar;[b 1] speak to it, Horatio.
Ber. Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.
Hor. Most like; it harrows[a 2][b 2] me with fear and wonder.
Ber. It would be spoke to.
Mar. Question[a 3] it, Horatio.[b 3] 45
Hor. What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,
Together with that fair and warlike form
In which the majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes[b 4] march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!
Mar. It is offended.
Ber. See, it stalks away. 50
Hor. Stay! speak, speak: I charge thee, speak!
[Exit Ghost.
Mar. 'Tis gone, and will not answer.
Ber. How now, Horatio? you tremble and look pale;
Is not this something more than fantasy?
What think you on't? 55
Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe
Without the sensible and true avouch
Of mine own eyes.
Mar. Is it not like the king?
- ↑ 42. scholar] Latin was the language of exorcisms. Reed cites Beaumont and Fletcher, Night Walker II. I:
"Let's call the butler up, for he speaks Latin,
And that would daunt the devil." - ↑ 44. harrows] Compare I. v. 16; and Milton, Comus, 565, "Amazed I stood, harrow'd with grief and fear."
- ↑ 45. Compare Boswell's Life of Johnson (ed. Birkbeck Hill, iii. 307): "Johnson once observed to me, 'Tom Tyers described me the best: "Sir (said he) you are like a ghost: you never speak till you are spoken to."'"
- ↑ 49. sometimes] sometime, formerly, as in Henry VIII. II. iv. 181.
