Horatio: He waxes desperate with imagination.
Marcellus: Let’s follow. ‘Tis not fit thus to obey him.
Horatio: Have after. To what issue will this come?
Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Horatio: Heaven will direct it.
Marcellus: Nay, let’s follow him. [Exeunt.]
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, scene 4, 87-91
The rest is silence.
Eugène Delacroix, Hamlet (Horatio et Hamlet dans le cimetière, détail).