HORATIO My lord, I did;
But answer made it none. Yet once methought
It lifted up its head and did address221
Itself to motion, like as it would speak:
But even then the morning cock crew loud,
And at the sound it shrunk in haste away
And vanished from our sight.
HAMLET 'Tis very strange.
HORATIO As I do live, my honoured lord, 'tis true;
And we did think it writ down in our duty
To let you know of it.
HAMLET Indeed, indeed, sirs; but this troubles me.
Hold you the watch tonight?
MARCELLUS AND BARNARDO We do, my lord.
HAMLET Armed, say you?
MARCELLUS AND BARNARDO Armed, my lord.
HAMLET From top to toe?
MARCELLUS AND BARNARDO My lord, from head to foot.
HAMLET Then saw you not his face?
HORATIO O, yes, my lord, he wore his beaver238 up.
HAMLET What, looked he frowningly?
HORATIO A countenance240 more in sorrow than in anger.
HAMLET Pale or red?
HORATIO Nay, very pale.
HAMLET And fixed his eyes upon you?
HORATIO Most constantly.
HAMLET I would I had been there.
HORATIO It would have much amazed you.
HAMLET Very like, very like. Stayed it long?
HORATIO While one with moderate haste might tell248 a hundred.