Hamlet

▲Sir John Everett Millais <Ophelia>

Excerpt from

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

QUEEN GERTRUDE:

There is a willow grows aslant a brook,

That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;

There with fantastic garlands did she come

Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples

That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,

But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:

There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds

Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;

When down her weedy trophies and herself

Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;

And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:

Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;

As one incapable of her own distress,

Or like a creature native and indued

Unto that element: but long it could not be

Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,

Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay

To muddy death.

节选自

《哈姆雷特》

威廉·莎士比亚

格特鲁德女王:

溪上歪垂着一棵柳树，

苍白的柳叶倒映在晶莹的溪水中;

她带着梦幻般的花环来到那儿

毛茛，荨麻，雏菊和长颈兰

那是随性的牧羊人给取的俗名，

但是无情的女仆们却把它们唤作“死人之指”:

那儿，低垂的粗枝上，她的花环

半挂着，一根嫉妒的枝条断了一截：

当时，野花连同她自己

坠入了哭泣的小溪。她的衣裳舒展开;

有一会儿它们将她像人鱼一样撑起:

就在那时，她唱起了古老的曲调；

像是一个对自己的不幸已无能为力的人，

或像一个天生

于那种环境的生命：但是没过多久，

她那被水泡得沉甸甸的衣服，

就把这个不幸的可怜人从优雅的地方拽向了

死亡的泥潭。

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