Lines 81 to 119, act I scene I of Hamlet

Marcellus: Whoever knows, sit and tell me
Why does this watch
who watches over the land
And why are cannons made
And foreign weapons bought
Why do shipwrights whose hard task
Does not give them Sunday off
Why does this sweaty haste
Join the night and day laborers
Who can inform me

Horatio: I can explain it
The rumor is: our last king
Who you just saw
Was, as you all know, picked to fight
By Fortinbras of Norway
Challenged to combat, when our valiant Hamlet
As this side of the world knew him
Killed Fortinbras, who, by agreement
Which was made true by law and heraldry
Did give up, along with his life, all his lands
Which he controlled, to the winner
Hamlet had an agreement, that to be returned were
the lands of Fortinbras
Had Fortinbras won, by the same agreement
And by the terms of which the agreement was designed
His land went to Hamlet. Now, young Fortinbras
Of hot anger
Did in the skirts of Norway
Enlist a group of ruffians
Paid in food, to engage in an activity
That’s purpose is to
As it appears to us
Recover the lands lost by war
And those compulsatory agreements, with regards to those same lands
That his father lost. And I believe that this,
Is the main motive of our preparation
The source of this watch
The source of our watch and chief reason
Of this speed and commotion