'The readiness is all. Since no man, of ought he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes? Let be.' Johnson: 'The readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?' Steevens (1773, 1778, 1785) and Rann adopt the reading of Johnson, adding the words 'Let be.' Warburton's reading was followed by Capell, Malone, Steevens (1793), the Editors of the three _Variorum Shakespeares_, 1803, 1813, 1821, Singer, Harness and Mr Collier. Caldecott first adopted the reading given in our text. Mr Grant White follows him. Becket would substitute 'has thought' for 'has aught.' Mr Keightley prints thus, marking the sentence as unfinished: 'The readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what it is to leave betimes.... Let be.' NOTE XXXIII. V. 2. 290. Mr Staunton says, "The exclamation 'Ho!' meaning _stop_, should perhaps be addressed to the combatants, and not, as it is always printed, to those who are to raise the Queen." The Tragicall Historie of HAMLET Prince of Denmarke. [Sidenote: [SC. I.]]] _Enter two Centinels._ 1. Stand: who is that? 2. Tis I. 1. O you come most carefully vpon your watch, 2. And if you meete _Marcellus_ and _Horatio_, The partners of my watch, bid them make haste. 5 1. I will: See who goes there. _Enter Horatio and Marcellus._ _Hor._ Friends to this ground. _Mar._ And leegemen to the Dane, O farewell honest souldier, who hath releeued you? 1. _Barnardo_ hath my place, giue you good night. 10 _Mar._ Holla, _Barnardo_. 2. Say, is _Horatio_ there? _Hor._ A peece of him. 2. Welcome _Horatio_, welcome good _Marcellus_. _Mar._ What hath this thing appear'd againe to night. 15 2. I haue seene nothing. _Mar._ _Horatio_ sayes tis but our fantasie, And wil not let beliefe take hold of him, Touching this dreaded sight twice seene by vs, Therefore I haue intreated him a long with vs 20 To watch the minutes of this night, That if againe this apparition come, He may approoue our eyes, and speake to it. _Hor._ Tut, t'will not appeare. 2. Sit downe I pray, and let vs once againe 25 Assaile your eares that are so fortified, What we haue two nights seene. _Hor._ Wel, sit we downe, and let vs heare _Bernardo_ speake of this. 2. Last night of al, when yonder starre that's westward 30 from the pole, had made his course to Illumine that part of heauen. Where now it burnes, The bell then towling one. _Enter Ghost._ _Mar._ Breake off your talke, see where it comes againe. 2. In the same figure like the King that's dead, 35 _Mar._ Thou art a scholler, speake to it _Horatio_.