Hamlet
Act I, Scene 1·Page 11 / 268
But, soft, behold! Lo, where it comes again! I’ll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion! If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, Speak to me. If there be any good thing to be done, That may to thee do ease, and grace to me, Speak to me. If thou art privy to thy country’s fate, Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O speak! Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, Speak of it. Stay, and speak!
[_The cock crows._]
Stop it, Marcellus!
MARCELLUS. Shall I strike at it with my partisan?
HORATIO. Do, if it will not stand.