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By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets^{[b 1]} me: 85
I say, away!—Go on; I'll follow thee.
[Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet.

Hor. He waxes desperate with imagination.

Mar. Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.

Hor. Have after.—To what issue will this come?

Mar. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 90

Hor. Heaven will direct it.^{[b 2]}

Mar. Nay, let's follow him.
[Exeunt.

SCENE V.—Another Part of the Platform.^{[a 1]}

Enter Ghost and Hamlet.

Ham. Whither^{[a 2]} wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further.

Ghost. Mark me.

Ham. I will.

Ghost. My hour is almost come,
When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself.

Ham. Alas, poor ghost!

Ghost. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing 5
To what I shall unfold.

Ham. Speak;^{[b 3]} I am bound^{[b 4]} to hear.

1. Scene V.] Capell.
2. 1. Whither] Q 1, Q; Where F.

1. 85. lets] hinders.
2. 91. it] the issue of line 89.
3. 6, 7. Speak . . . shalt hear] These words are playfully quoted in Fletcher's The Woman-Hater (about 1607), II. i. (vol. i. p. 37, ed. Dyce).
4. 6. bound] Delius supposes that Hamlet uses this word in the sense of ready addressed, while the Ghost takes it as meaning bound in duty.