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We'll put the matter to the present push.

Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.

This grave shall have a living monument:

An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;

Till then, in patience our proceeding be.

Ham. So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other;

You do remember all the circumstance?

Hor. Remember it, my lord?

Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting

That would not let me sleep; methought I lay

Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,—

And prais'd be rashness for it, let us know,

Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well

When our deep plots do pall; and that should teach us

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will.

Hor. That is most certain.

Ham. Up from my cabin,

My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark

Grop'd I to find out them, had my desire,

Finger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew

To mine own room again; making so bold—

My fears forgetting manners—to unseal

Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,

O royal knavery! an exact command,

 319 present push: immediate trial

321 living: lasting  6 mutines: mutineers

bilboes: shackles

9 pall: fail

13 sea-gown; cf. n.

15 Finger'd: pilfered

