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Another Room in the Same. | |
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Enter KING, attended. | |
King. I have sent to seek him, and to find the body. | |
How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! | |
Yet must not we put the strong law on him: | 5 |
Hes lovd of the distracted multitude, | |
Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes; | |
And where tis so, the offenders scourge is weighd, | |
But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even, | |
This sudden sending him away must seem | 10 |
Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown | |
By desperate appliance are relievd, | |
Or not at all. | |
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Enter ROSENCRANTZ. | |
How now! what hath befalln? | 15 |
Ros. Where the dead body is bestowd, my lord, | |
We cannot get from him. | |
King. But where is he? | |
Ros. Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure. | |
King. Bring him before us. | 20 |
Ros. Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord. | |
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Enter HAMLET and GUILDENSTERN. | |
King. Now, Hamlet, wheres Polonius? | |
Ham. At supper. | |
King. At supper! Where? | 25 |
Ham. Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are een at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service; two dishes, but to one table: thats the end. | |
King. Alas, alas! | |
Ham. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. | |
King. What dost thou mean by this? | |
Ham. Nothing, but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. | 30 |
King. Where is Polonius? | |
Ham. In heaven; send thither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i the other place yourself. But, indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby. | |
King. [To some Attendants.] Go seek him there. | |
Ham. He will stay till you come. [Exeunt Attendants. | |
King. Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety, | 35 |
Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve | |
For that which thou hast done, must send thee hence | |
With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself; | |
The bark is ready, and the wind at help, | |
The associates tend, and every thing is bent | 40 |
For England. | |
Ham. For England! | |
King. Ay, Hamlet. | |
Ham. Good. | |
King. So is it, if thou knewst our purposes. | 45 |
Ham. I see a cherub that sees them. But, some; for England! Farewell, dear mother. | |
King. Thy loving father, Hamlet. | |
Ham. My mother: father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother. Come, for England! [Exit. | |
King. Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard: | |
Delay it not, Ill have him hence to-night. | 50 |
Away! for every thing is seald and done | |
That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste. [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN. | |
And, England, if my love thou holdst at aught, | |
As my great power thereof may give thee sense, | |
Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red | 55 |
After the Danish sword, and thy free awe | |
Pays homage to us,thou mayst not coldly set | |
Our sovereign process, which imports at full, | |
By letters conjuring to that effect, | |
The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; | 60 |
For like the hectic in my blood he rages, | |
And thou must cure me. Till I know tis done, | |
Howeer my haps, my joys were neer begun. [Exit. | |
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