"...SICK AT HEART" Francisco is happy to do this, thanking Bernardo and saying "'tis [it is] bitter cold, And I am sick at heart" (it is very cold and I am sick at heart), a line which symbolizes the mood of this play and the state of tension in Denmark.
             "...NOT A MOUSE STIRRING" Before leaving we learn from Francisco that it has been a quiet watch with "Not a mouse stirring" (not a mouse moving).
             "...FOR THIS RELIEF MUCH THANKS" Francisco hears the approach of two men whom we soon learn are the soldiers Horatio and Marcellus who identify themselves as being loyal to Denmark. Before leaving, Francisco tells Marcellus that Bernardo has relieved him.
             "...PROLOGUE TO THE OMEN COMING ON"
             "...THE MORN, IN RUSSET MANTLE CLAD"
             "...A LITTLE MORE THAN KIN AND LESS THAN KIND" Hamlet makes his first observation, suspiciously commenting in an aside (a speech sharing his private thoughts with the audience) that Claudius who referred to him as a "son," is "A little more than kin [family], and less than kind" (a little more than family and less than kind) (def.2)-Hamlet's first words in the play show him playing with words in order to state a paradox: Claudius is twice related to him, as uncle and stepfather, but not really his kin or kind at all.
             "...O, THAT THIS TOO TOO SOLID FLESH WOULD MELT" At the opening of his first soliloquy, Hamlet expresses a longing for a gentle escape from this world.
             "...FRAILTY, THY NAME IS WOMAN!" So angry is Hamlet that he generalizes that all woman like his mother are weak when he says: "Frailty, thy [your] name is woman!"
             "...IN MY MIND'S EYE" Hamlet now mentions that he believes he has seen his father in "my mind's eye," Horatio agreeing that King Hamlet "was a goodly king" Hamlet agrees, and now Horatio describes what he, Bernardo and Marcellus have seen, des...