Ham. I am constant to my purposes; they follow the King's
pleasure.
If his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now or whensoever,
provided
I be so able as now.
Lord. The King and Queen and all are coming down.
Ham. In happy time.
Lord. The Queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to
Laertes before you fall to play.
Ham. She well instructs me.
[Exit Lord.]
Hor. You will lose this wager, my lord.
Ham. I do not think so. Since he went into France I have been
in
continual practice. I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst
not
think how ill all's here about my heart. But it is no matter.
Hor. Nay, good my lord -
Ham. It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gaingiving as
would perhaps trouble a woman.
Hor. If your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will forestall
their
repair hither and say you are not fit.
Ham. Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence
in
the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come', if it
be
not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will
come:
the readiness is all.
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