Well
ratified
by law and
heraldry,
/ Did
forfeit
with
hislife
all those
his lands
/ Which he
stood
seiz’d of,
to the
conqueror;
/ Against
the which,
a moiety
competent
/Was gaged
by our
king;
which had
return’d /
To the
inheritance
of
Fortinbras,
/ Had he
been
vanquisher;
as,by the
same
covenant,
/ And
carriage
of the
article
design’d,
/ His fell
to Hamlet.
Now, sir,
young
Fortinbras,
/Of
unimproved
mettle hot
and full,
/ Hath in
the skirts
