110 EMERITUS PROFESSOR BLACKTE ON THE 



by these writers, as contrasted with the purist party, we cannot do better than set before 

 him at length one of the most familiar passages in Hamlet, act i. scene 2, as translated 

 by Polylas and Bikelas, and the same in the translation above named, by Damirales. 



" 0, that this too too solid flesh would melt, 

 Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ! 

 Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd 

 His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! God ! God ! 

 How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable 

 Seems to me all the uses of this world ! 

 Fie on't ! fie ! 'tis an unweeded garden 

 That grows to seed ; things rank and gross in nature 

 Possess it merely. That it should come to this ! 

 But two months dead ! — nay, not so much, not two : 

 So excellent a king ; that was, to this, 

 Hyperion to a satyr : so loving to my mother, 

 That he might not between the winds of heaven 

 "Visit her face too roughly." 



' Ax ! va tjpTropovcre tovt r\ tocto crTeper] adpKa 

 va ^eiraywcru /ecu w? dxvog Spocrid va ylvrj ! 

 t] tov vopov tov o IlAacrT>7? va pr\v e?xe orders 

 va TifJLwprj tov avTO<povov ! Ge' pov, to Ge' pov, 

 ttocto avouTa, koivu Kai dvuxpeXa icai a%peia 

 tpaivovT bXa $ epe ra epy avTov tov Kocrpov ! 

 QacriceXa va 'xovv ! K^7ro9 elvai xopTiacrpevog 

 pes to ^ecnropiacrpd tov, Kai oXov tov yepicrav 

 XOVTpoeiSrj <pVTa Kai £e(3XacrTapwpeva. 

 Avtov va KaTavTwn ! 'AireOapevog poXig 

 airo ovo pijvais ovoe tocto, ovoe kuv ovo. 

 Ti e^alcriog (SacriXeas I Yirepiiov rJTav 



Kai TOVTO? C/ULTTpOCrOeV TOV SaTUyOO?" CO TTOCTO 



Tpvcpeptjv elx<e ayairrjv Tr)s pqTpos pov ! prjTe 

 avepoi t ovpavov 6a vrrotpepve va irveovv 

 CTKXr}pa s to nrpocrtoiTO Tt]S ! 



12 ! A? Tt]V ejiXeira avTtjv t^v CTTepedv Trjv crctpKa 

 va eXvove, va 'crKopiri^e k era? cit/xo? va. yeivyl 

 H vopov a? prjv topi£e 6 TiXacrTr)^ vd TraiSevfl 

 tov avTOKTOvov ! — ' £1 Gee, Gee' /ulov, ttoctov Kovcpia 

 kl avoocpeXrj Kai paTaia /a' avovaia Kai crairia 

 pov (pacvovTai tu irpaypaTa tov Kocrpov tovtov oXa ! 

 Ti crlxupa I tl crixapa ! Xwyoa0t x^P aov stvcu, 

 ^ecnropiucrpevov ! 'Fepicre dyKidOia Kai TpifioXovs 

 ki ovo' ex ei a XXo TiTTore !...'? avTO vd KaTavTr\cr\\ ! 

 M0X19 veKpo? irpo Svd pt]vwv . . . pr)Te Kav Svo ! "Ox* ' 

 Ti pacriXevs ! Qpola^e pe tovtov octov 'poid^et 

 o "Yirepiwv 6 Geo? pe ^aTvpov ! Kcu toctov 

 yXvKog Trpos ty\v prjTepa pov, itov co? /ecu tov aepa 

 Sev Oacpive '$ to irpocrwirov crKXypd vd t^? (pvcrrjcri^. 



