paroles de chanson Hamlet: Act 5 - Scene 2, "Where is This Sight?" (Fortinbras) [Part IV] - John Gielgud

Where is this sight?

What is it you would see?
If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search

This quarry cries on havoc. O proud Death
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell
That thou so many princes at a shot
So bloodily hast struck?

The sight is dismal
And our affairs from England come too late
The ears are censorous that should give us hearing
To tell him his commandment is fulfilled
That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
Where should we have our thanks?

Not from his mouth
Had it the ability of life to thank you
He never gave commandment for their death
But since, so jump upon this bloody question
You from the Polack wars, and you from England
Are here arrived, give order that these bodies
High on a stage be placed to the view
And let me speak to the yet unknowing world
How these things came about. So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fallen on the inventors' heads. All this
Can I truly deliver

Let us haste to hear it
And call the noblest to the audience
For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune
I have some rights of memory in this kingdom
Which now to claim, my vantage doth invite me

Of that I shall have also cause to speak
And from his mouth, whose voice will draw on more
But let this same be presently performed
Even while men's minds are wild
Lest more mischance on plots and errors happen

Let four captains bear Hamlet
Like a soldier to the stage, for he was likely
Had he been put on, to have proved most royal
And for his passage, the soldiers' music
And the right of war speak loudly for him
Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this
Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss
Go, bid the soldiers shoot