Act Three
Act
Three Scene Two
Sub
Scene Three
Horatio
was seen on the horizon
“What
ho, Horatio!” Hamlet saw his long-time guardian and friend approach the Hall.
“Here,
sweet lord, at your service.” Horatio stepped up to the Prince.
“Horatio,
thou art e’en as just a man as e’er my conversation coped withal.” Hamlet
pulled him aside.
“O,
my dear lord— I am as much what a
man should be as any I have ever met. You lay the suit there for me to dress
on.” It was an admiralty design cut to fit the man. The portrait of the Admiral
who won the battles was always regal in appearance and immaculate in fashion.
“Nay, do not think I am unflattering. I am
just a servant of the castle.” Horatio was humble about that. “For what
advancement may I hope from thee hat no revenue hast but thy good spirits to
feed and clothe thee?”
Horatio
knew that Hamlet was without any acts that pay while in the castle. And yet he
spends on the suit for him.
“Nay,
do not think I flatter, for what advancement may I hope from thee.” Hamlet
leaned over to whisper at the ears. “You are humbly my friend and not a servant
to be seen by them “
“Why
should ….. the poor not be flattered? You are my friend, and your image shall
be with f mine. We stand as peers tonight.”
“Indeed,
we are friends.” Horatio felt the honor to be called that, and not a servant.
“Let
the candied tongue lick absurd pomp and crook the pregnant hinges of the
knee where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?” Hamlet spoke of the
flat flattery of those who hailed him only to get some praise from him. “I have
only your trust.”
“Since
my dear soul was mistress of her choice”, Hamlet thought of Ophelia. “And could
of men distinguish, her election hath sealed thee for herself.”
Hamlet
could not rely on Ophelia whose choice was her own to live with, Polonius
intervened there, on her will. There will be no interference from him. He had
declared himself freed of her.
“A
man that Fortune’s buffets and rewards hast taken with equal thanks; and
blessed are those whose blood and judgment are so well commended.” Hamler
believed in Horatio not to be taken in by the influence like Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern; paved the acts by the wealth of the Emperor; a relationship
shared now distance aside like the bowels dispensed of its contents.
“They
are no more my friends than the loads deposited in the sewers, unworthy to be
kept. I won’t be tempted no more.”
Hamlet sighed to himself.
“Give
me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s
core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee of thee.” Hamlet does love Horatio for the years they were
together. “You have been my anchor in the port.”
“As
I do, my Prince.” Horatio smiled at the Prince.
“There
is a play tonight before the … Emperor,” Hamlet told Horatio.
“As
I am told.” Horatio nodded.
“One
scene of it comes near the circumstance which I have told thee of my father’s
death. I prythee, when thou seest that act afoot, even with the very comment of
thy soul, observe the Emperor. If his occulted guilt does not itself
unkennel in one speech, it is a damnèd ghost that we have seen, and my
imaginations are as foul as Vulcan’s stithy.” Hamlet looked away in anger. “The
devil was doing its work then.”
“But
give him the heedful note, for mine eyes will rivet to his face, and, after, we
will both our judgments join
In censure of his seeming.” Hamlet added. “The Emperor may father in his act if
he is whom we assumed to be the guilty.”
“Well,
my lord. If he steals aught the whilst this play is playing. And escape
detecting, I will pay the heft.” Horatio pledged to his Prince to be vigilant
or be punished if he fails.
“They
are coming to the play. I must be idle.” Hamlet told Horatio. “Get you a place
with the grandest of the view.”
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