Read the lines, spoken by bernardo to horatio, from act i, scene i of hamlet. last night of all, when yond same star that's westward from the pole had made his course to illume that part of heaven where now it burns, marcellus and myself, the bell then beating what is the purpose of these lines? to describe the time of night to explain the progress of a star to foreshadow the appearance of the ghost to convince horatio of the existence of ghosts answer asap