_Queen._ Alack, what noise is this?[1732] _King._ Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.[1733][1734] _Enter another_ Gentleman.[1734] What is the matter?[1734] _Gent._ Save yourself, my lord:[1734][1735] The ocean, overpeering of his list, 95 Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste[1736] Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord;[1737] And, as the world were now but to begin,[1738] Antiquity forgot, custom not known,[1738] 100 The ratifiers and props of every word,[1738][1739][1740] They cry 'Choose we; Laertes shall be king!'[1739][1741] Caps, hands and tongues applaud it to the clouds,[1742] 'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!'[1743] _Queen._ How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! 105 O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs! [_Noise within._[1744] _King._ The doors are broke. _Enter_ LAERTES, _armed_; Danes _following_.[1745] _Laer._ Where is this king? Sirs, stand you all without.[1746] _Danes._ No, let's come in.[1747] _Laer._ I pray you, give me leave. _Danes._ We will, we will. 110 [_They retire without the door._[1747][1748] _Laer._ I thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king,[1749][1750] Give me my father![1749] _Queen._ Calmly, good Laertes. _Laer._ That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard;[1751] Cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow[1752] 115 Of my true mother. _King._ What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks so giant-like? Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person: There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would,[1753] 120 Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes,[1754] Why thou art thus incensed: let him go, Gertrude:[1755] Speak, man. _Laer._ Where is my father? _King._ Dead. _Queen._ But not by him.[1756] _King._ Let him demand his fill. 125 _Laer._ How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with: To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil![1757] Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit![1758] I dare damnation: to this point I stand,[1758] That both the worlds I give to negligence, 130 Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged Most throughly for my father. _King._ Who shall stay you? _Laer._ My will, not all the world:[1759] And for my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far with little.[1760]