Hamlet : Where wilt thou lead me? Speak. I'll go no further.
Ghost: I am thy father's spirit, Doomed for a certain term to walk the night And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood... Revenge his foul an most unnatural murder.
Hamlet: O my prophetic soul! My uncle?
Ghost: Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, with traitorous gifts. Won to his shameful lust the will of my most seeming virtuous queen. The thin and wholesome blood. So did it min. Fare thee well at once. Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.
Hamlet: O all you host of heaven! O earth! And shall I couple hell? Oh, fie! Hold, hold, my heart, and you, my sinews, grow not instant old, but bear me stiffly up. Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat in this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory i'll wipe all trivial fond records. O most pernicious women! O villain, villain, smiling villain, damned villain. So, uncle, there you are. Now to my words.
Hamlet refuses to continue walking with the ghost unless the ghost explains himself.
Horatio: My lord, my lord!Heaven Secure him!
Marcellus: Lord Hamlet-
Hamlet: So be it.
The ghost is Hamlets father and informs Hamlet of his murder and wife's affair.
Horatio: In faith, my lord, not I.
Marcellus: Nor I, my lord, in faith.
Hamlet: Never make known what you have seen tonight.Swear by sword.
Hamlet realizes he must seek revenge.
Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
Ghost: (beneath) Swear!
Hamlet: Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! So, gentlemen, with all my love I do commend me to you, and what so poor a man as Hamlet is may do, to express his love and friending to you, God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together, and still your fingers on your lips, I pray. The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right! Nay, Come, let's go together.
The guards assure that Hamlet is safe.
Hamlet makes the guards promise they will never admit what they had seen.
After the ghost continues to speak from the ground the guards promise not to reveal the events that had occured.