(Act 1, Scene 4) William Shakespeare

                                                  SCENE. – Elsinore.

                                                            ACT I

                                                       Scene IV

                              Elsinore. The platform before the Castle.

Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus.

  HAMLET
The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.

  HORATIO
It is a nipping and an eager air.

  HAMLET
What hour now?

  HORATIO
I think it lacks of twelve.

  MARCELLUS
No, it is struck.

  HORATIO
Indeed? I heard it not. It then draws near the season
Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.
                   A flourish of trumpets, and two pieces go off.
What does this mean, my lord?