Page:Hamlet - The Arden Shakespeare - 1899.djvu/79

 The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body; And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd; Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousel'd, disappointed, unaneled; No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head: Oh, horrible! Oh, horrible! most horrible! If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;