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Credit: Hamlet, a dramatic prelude, in five acts / by James Rush. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![To be life-lasting favor to me. To first Student. a i j • Take A long-enduring print of friendship from This palm ; that memory cannot grow so dim, But she will read the heart of Hamlet there. To second Student. The Muses early joined our hands; and whilst They to the heart that courts them, lover-like In secret, whisper surer words of favor And content, than ever swelled th' inequitable Trump of Fame, I answer for it, we shall Not forget each other. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, lads of a class with me; when Together thus I give you each a hand, What will you say to Hamlet? Rosen. If blessings Be the work of friends, I speak for two; we Ask of heaven to bless thee. Ham. [Aside.] To bless! The Gipsy Warned me of these consecrating tongues. Hear That Horatio,—how the future thus steps Backward on the words of prophecy. Pardon Sir, this silent gathering up of gratitude, That still wants measure in her words, for all The good you wish me. Or more or less, I Cannot, will not offer; to return thee Back thy own, is robbing thee to do it, and Would thus deserve false friendship's halter. [Hamlet leaves Horatio to withdraw.] Come Horatio; that a parting grief may take, To feel, thy hand of sorrow last.—Again, To each in all, farewell. [Exeunt Hamlet and Horatio. end of act first.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21152081_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
