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    Bernardo: Act I SCENE I. Elsinore. A Platform Before The Castle

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    Bernardo and Francisco, soldiers standing watch outside Elsinore Castle, greet each other as Bernardo relieves Francisco at midnight. As Francisco leaves, Horatio and Marcellus arrive to join Bernardo on watch, hoping to see the ghost that has appeared previously. When the ghost appears again, Horatio questions it but it does not respond and disappears. Horatio is convinced they have seen the ghost of the late king and believes its appearance foreshadows trouble for Denmark.

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    Bernardo and Francisco, soldiers standing watch outside Elsinore Castle, greet each other as Bernardo relieves Francisco at midnight. As Francisco leaves, Horatio and Marcellus arrive to join Bernardo on watch, hoping to see the ghost that has appeared previously. When the ghost appears again, Horatio questions it but it does not respond and disappears. Horatio is convinced they have seen the ghost of the late king and believes its appearance foreshadows trouble for Denmark.

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    Bernardo and Francisco, soldiers standing watch outside Elsinore Castle, greet each other as Bernardo relieves Francisco at midnight. As Francisco leaves, Horatio and Marcellus arrive to join Bernardo on watch, hoping to see the ghost that has appeared previously. When the ghost appears again, Horatio questions it but it does not respond and disappears. Horatio is convinced they have seen the ghost of the late king and believes its appearance foreshadows trouble for Denmark.

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    Bernardo: Act I SCENE I. Elsinore. A Platform Before The Castle

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    Bernardo and Francisco, soldiers standing watch outside Elsinore Castle, greet each other as Bernardo relieves Francisco at midnight. As Francisco leaves, Horatio and Marcellus arrive to join Bernardo on watch, hoping to see the ghost that has appeared previously. When the ghost appears again, Horatio questions it but it does not respond and disappears. Horatio is convinced they have seen the ghost of the late king and believes its appearance foreshadows trouble for Denmark.

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    ACT I

    SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle.


    FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO

    BERNARDO
    Who's there?

    FRANCISCO
    Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.

    BERNARDO
    Long live the king!

    FRANCISCO
    Bernardo?

    BERNARDO
    He.

    FRANCISCO
    You come most carefully upon your hour.

    BERNARDO
    'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.

    FRANCISCO
    For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
    And I am sick at heart.

    BERNARDO
    Have you had quiet guard?

    FRANCISCO
    Not a mouse stirring.

    BERNARDO
    Well, good night.
    If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
    The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.

    FRANCISCO
    I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there?
    Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS

    HORATIO
    Friends to this ground.

    MARCELLUS
    And liegemen to the Dane.

    FRANCISCO
    Give you good night.

    MARCELLUS
    O, farewell, honest soldier:
    Who hath relieved you?

    FRANCISCO
    Bernardo has my place.
    Give you good night.

    Exit

    MARCELLUS
    Holla! Bernardo!

    BERNARDO
    Say,
    What, is Horatio there?

    HORATIO
    A piece of him.

    BERNARDO
    Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus.

    MARCELLUS
    What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?

    BERNARDO
    I have seen nothing.

    MARCELLUS
    Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
    And will not let belief take hold of him
    Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:
    Therefore I have entreated him along
    With us to watch the minutes of this night;
    That if again this apparition come,
    He may approve our eyes and speak to it.

    HORATIO
    Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.

    BERNARDO
    Sit down awhile;
    And let us once again assail your ears,
    That are so fortified against our story
    What we have two nights seen.

    HORATIO
    Well, sit we down,
    And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.

    BERNARDO
    Last night of all,
    When yond same star that's westward from the pole
    Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
    Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
    The bell then beating one,--

    Enter Ghost

    MARCELLUS
    Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!

    BERNARDO
    In the same figure, like the king that's dead.

    MARCELLUS
    Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.

    BERNARDO
    Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.

    HORATIO
    Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.

    BERNARDO
    It would be spoke to.

    MARCELLUS
    Question it, Horatio.

    HORATIO
    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 march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!

    MARCELLUS
    It is offended.

    BERNARDO
    See, it stalks away!

    HORATIO
    Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!

    Exit Ghost

    MARCELLUS
    'Tis gone, and will not answer.

    BERNARDO
    How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:
    Is not this something more than fantasy?
    What think you on't?

    HORATIO
    Before my God, I might not this believe
    Without the sensible and true avouch
    Of mine own eyes.

    MARCELLUS
    Is it not like the king?

    HORATIO
    As thou art to thyself:
    Such was the very armour he had on
    When he the ambitious Norway combated;
    So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle,
    He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.
    'Tis strange.

    MARCELLUS
    Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
    With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.

    HORATIO
    In what particular thought to work I know not;
    But in the gross and scope of my opinion,
    This bodes some strange eruption to our state.

    MARCELLUS
    Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,
    Why this same strict and most observant watch
    So nightly toils the subject of the land,
    And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,
    And foreign mart for implements of war;
    Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
    Does not divide the Sunday from the week;
    What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
    Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:
    Who is't that can inform me?

    HORATIO

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