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SparkNotes Plus subscription is 4.99/month or 24.99/year as selected above. This quote is significant because it shows Marcellus and Horatio's loyalty to Hamlet and how they would do anything to help their friend. Important quotes from Act I: Scene i in Hamlet. In each act, Hamlets need for revenge causes misfortune and death. They cannot give away that he knows anything about the ghost or say anything that would make someone doubt Hamlet's state of lunacy. In this quote, Hamlet is explaining that in the near future he may seem to act crazy and peculiar but Horatio and Marcellus may never show even a weird expression that would give away Hamlet's act.
But come Here, as before, never, so help your mercy, How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself-As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on-That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, With arms encumber'd thus, or this head-shake, Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, As 'Well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,' Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,' Or such ambiguous giving out, to note That you know aught of me this not to do, So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear." -Hamlet, Act I, scene V (pg.28) There are many more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. "And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
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