1 And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.
2 Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence, And bear it to the chapel.'
3 To bear all smooth and even, This sudden sending him away must seem Deliberate pause.
4 Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that th'opposed may beware of thee.
5 Look you lay home to him, Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, And that your Grace hath screen'd and stood between Much heat and him.
6 Let four captains Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage, For he was likely, had he been put on, To have prov'd most royally; and for his passage, The soldiers' music and the rites of war Speak loudly for him.
7 We pray you throw to earth This unprevailing woe, and think of us As of a father; for let the world take note You are the most immediate to our throne, And with no less nobility of love Than that which dearest father bears his son Do I impart toward you.
8 Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe; Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature That we with wisest sorrow think on him, Together with remembrance of ourselves.
9 The other motive, Why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him, Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, Would like the spring that turneth wood to stone, Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows, Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, And not where I had aim'd them.