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That can I. | |
At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, | |
Whose image even but now appear'd to us, | |
Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, | |
Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride, | |
Dar'd to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet | |
(For so this side of our known world esteem'd him) | |
Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal'd compact, | |
Well ratified by law and heraldry, | |
Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands | |
Which he stood seiz'd of, to the conqueror; | |
Against the which a moiety competent | |
Was gaged by our king; which had return'd | |
To the inheritance of Fortinbras, | |
Had he been vanquisher, as, by the same cov'nant | |
And carriage of the article design'd, | |
His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras, | |
Of unimproved mettle hot and full, | |
Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there, | |
Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes, | |
For food and diet, to some enterprise | |
That hath a stomach in't; which is no other, | |
As it doth well appear unto our state, | |
But to recover of us, by strong hand | |
And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands | |
So by his father lost; and this, I take it, | |
Is the main motive of our preparations, | |
The source of this our watch, and the chief head | |
Of this post-haste and romage in the land. |
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