Excerpt from Act I, Scene 1, in Hamlet by William Shakespeare In this excerpt, three soldiers discuss their sighting of the dead king's ghost.
Horatio
Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!
[Exit Ghost.]
Marcellus
'Tis gone, and will not answer.
Bernardo
How now, Horatio! You tremble and look pale:
Is not this something more than fantasy?
What think you on't?
Horatio
Before my God, I might not this believe
Without the sensible and true avouch
Of mine own eyes.

What is the most likely meaning of the word charge in this scene?