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SC. II.]
PRINCE OF DENMARK
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Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo.

Hor. Hail to your lordship!

Ham. I am glad to see you well:[b 1] 160
Horatio,—or I do forget myself.

Hor. The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.

Ham. Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name[b 2] with you:
And what make you[b 3] from Wittenberg, Horatio?
Marcellus?[a 1] 165

Mar. My good lord,—[a 2]

Ham. I am very glad to see you.—[To Bernardo.]
Good even, sir.—[a 3]
But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?

Hor. A truant disposition, good my lord.

Ham. I would not hear[a 4] your enemy say so, 170
Nor shall you do mine[a 5] ear that violence,
To make[a 6] it truster of your own report
Against yourself; I know you are no truant.
But what is your affair in Elsinore?
We'll teach you to drink deep[a 7] ere you depart. 175

Hor. My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.

Ham. I pray thee,[a 8] do not mock me, fellow-student;
I think it was to see[a 9] my mother's wedding.

  1. 165. Marcellus?] Capell, Marcellus, Q, F.
  2. 166. lord,—] Rowe; lord, Q, F; lord? Cambridge.
  3. 167. sir] sirs Q 1.
  4. 170. hear] Q, have F.
  5. 171. mine] F, my Q.
  6. 172. make] take Ff 2–4.
  7. 175. to drink deep] Q 1, F; for to drinke Q.
  8. 177. pray thee] F, pre thee Q.
  9. 178. see] Q 1, F; omitted Q.
  1. 160, 161.] Sir H. Irving, as Hamlet, delivers "I . . . well" as a conventional greeting to unrecognised intruders; Hamlet then looks up and perceives his friend.
  2. 162. change that name] Exchange the name "friend." Johnson explains: "I'11 be your servant, you shall be my friend."
  3. 164. make you] do you, as in II, ii. 280.