...this is a good spirit or an evil spirit (a reasonable response in early seventeenthcentury Europel: Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd. Bring with rhee airs from heaven or blasts from hell. Be thy intents wicked, or charitable . . . (Liii.39l Nothmg...

...with a preternatural will to know and to be known, at once anarchic and reverent: Angels and minsters of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable...

...noble substance often dout, 37 To his own scandal. Enter Ghost. HORATIO Look, my lord, it comes. HAMLET Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, 40 Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable,...

...freezing night, the ghost appears. ACT I Scene 4 Enter Ghost. HORATIO Look my lord, it comes. HAMLET Angels and ministers of grace defend us. Be thou a spirit of health or gohlin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,...

...its close resemblance to his father that invites questioning — outweighs his otherworldly concerns: Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable...

...obseruance. Enter Ghost. Hor. Looke my Lord, it comes. Ham. Angels and Ministers of Grace defend vs: Be thou a Spirit of health or Goblin damn'd, Bring with thee ayres from Heauen, or blasts from Hell, Be thy euents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable...

...piteous beauty and the yearning of love: it is also a speech of fear. Again, there is a 'grace' contrast: Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a...health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable...

...noble substance of a doubt, To his own scandal Enter the Chost HORAT1O Look, my lord, it comea. HAMLET Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, 40 Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable,...

...grace defend us!" 262 To Be or Not to Be: It'j Up to You Then he mixed in terms from the supernatural: Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell . . . HAMLET (1.4, 40-41) Spirits and goblins. Heaven and hell. Hamlet seems...

...Dost thou bring with thee airs from Heaven?: Hamlet, speaking to the ghost of his father, declares: "Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, / Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, / Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, / Thou com'st in such a questionable...