经典话剧剧本《Hamlet哈姆雷特ACT2》英文完整版(7)

　　It was against your highness: whereat grieved,

　　That so his sickness, age and impotence

　　Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests

　　On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys;

　　Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine

　　Makes vow before his uncle never more

　　To give the assay of arms against your majesty.

　　Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,

　　Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee,

　　And his commission to employ those soldiers,

　　So levied as before, against the Polack:

　　With an entreaty, herein further shown,

　　Giving a paper

　　That it might please you to give quiet pass

　　Through your dominions for this enterprise,

　　On such regards of safety and allowance

　　As therein are set down.

　　KING CLAUDIUS

　　It likes us well;

　　And at our more consider'd time well read,

　　Answer, and think upon this business.

　　Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour:

　　Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together:

　　Most welcome home!

　　Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　This business is well ended.

　　My liege, and madam, to expostulate

　　What majesty should be, what duty is,

　　Why day is day, night night, and time is time,

　　Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.

　　Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,

　　And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,

　　I will be brief: your noble son is mad:

　　Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,

　　What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

　　But let that go.

　　QUEEN GERTRUDE

　　More matter, with less art.

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　Madam, I swear I use no art at all.

　　That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity;