SCENE 1, ACT 1
(Elsinore at midnight. FRANCISCO, a
guard, is about to go off-duty.
BARNARDO approaches from the dark.)
FRANCISCO
Who's that?
BARNARDO
Long live the king.
FRANCISCO
Barnardo--I'm glad you're on time.
Twelve o'clock, straight up. Anything unusual tonight?
FRANCISCO
Nothing, not even a mouse. Just the cold, the last couple
hours have been brutal.
BARNARDO
Well, you're finished now. Get yourself into a warm bed and
sleep, and if you see Horatio and Marcellus, tell them to--
FRANCISCO
I think I hear them.
(HORATIO and MARCELLUS enter.)
HORATIO & MARCELLUS
Long live the king.
BARNARDO & FRANCISCO
Long live the king.
HORATIO
(to Francisco)
How did your watch go?
FRANCISCO
Quiet and cold. Have a good night.
(Francisco exits.)
HORATIO
(to Barnardo, about Francisco)
So then he didn't see it?
MARCELLUS
(to Barnardo, about Horatio)
He insists it's just our imaginations.
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