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Let us impart what we have seen tonight
Unto young Hamlet, for upon my life,
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
MARCELLUS Let's do't, I pray, and I this morning know
Where we shall find him most conveniently.
Exeunt
Act 1 Scene 2
running scene 2
Enter Claudius King of Denmark, Gertrude the Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes and his sister Ophelia, Lords Attendant
KING Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
The memory be green2, and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
To be contracted4 in one brow of woe,
Yet so far hath discretion5 foug
ht with nature
That we with wisest sorrow think on him
Together with remembrance of ourselves.
Therefore our sometime8 sister, now our queen,
Th'imperial jointress9 of this warlike state,
Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,
With one auspicious and one dropping eye11,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole13,
Taken to wife; nor have we herein barred14
Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
Now follows that you know17 young Fortinbras,
Holding a weak supposal18 of our worth,
