Not from his mouth.
Had
it th’ability of life to thank you:
He
never gave commandment for their death. But since, so jump upon this bloody
question,
You
from the Polack wars, and you from England,
Are
here arrived, give order that these bodies
High
on a stage be placed to the view;
And
let me speak to th’yet unknowing world
How
these things came about: so shall you
hear
Of
carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts;
Of
accidental judgments, casual slaughters;
Of
deaths put on by cunning and forced cause;
And,
in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fain
on the inventors’ heads: All this can I
Truly
deliver.
-Horatio
Hamlet Act V, Scene ii, Line 372
Well there’s a long one for
you, but I really didn’t have the heart to break it up. This is the end of the
play. Claudius, Gertrude, Laertes, and Hamlet lay dead. Fortinbras has just
entered, as have ambassadors from England. The latter report that Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are dead, and they ask from whom they should be receiving their
thanks for that act. Horatio kneels by the dead body of his friend Hamlet, and
this is his reply to them, and his summation of the play, in a manner of
speaking.
What do you think?
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts:
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;
Of deaths put on by cunning, and forced cause;
Well, I don't suppose I could possibly give you a pic of this, so I won't try.
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