Sphere I He considered the love idl rajard ACT II SCENE II. As I perceiv'd it, I must tell you that, —what might you, Before my daughter told me- had rept the offair lucked of as in asiut the mate and work, Cruval at Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb, slufer at Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, Thence to a lightness, and by this declension And all we mourn for. King. чва wy ཞག Queen. It may be, very likely. Polonius. Hath there been such a time-I'd fain know that That I have positively said "'T is so,' When it prov'd otherwise? King. Not that I know. Polonius. [Pointing to his head and shoulder] Take this from this, if this be otherwise. If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Polonius. You know, sometimes he walks four hours to gether Here in the lobby. 160 "Excellent writes" Be Polonius. At such a time I 'll loose my daughter to him: you and I behind an arras then; the tapestry hangings, The Mark the encounter: if he love her not, And be not from his reason fallen thereon, Let me be no assistant for a state, But keep a farm and carters. King. We will try it. Queen. But, look, where sadly the poor wretch comes ou. reading. ་་ Polonius. Away, I do beseech you, both away; Enter HAMLET, reading. O, give me leave; 170 How does my good Lord Hamlet? Polonius. Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet. Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. Polonius. Not I, my lord. Hamlet. Then I would you were so honest a man. Polonius. Honest, my lord! Hamlet. Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Polonius. That's very true, my lord. Polonius. I have, my lord. Hamlet. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, mean that a being a good kissing carrion,-Have you a daughter? •hould read probably.. understanding Hamlet. Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a blessing; but not as your daughter may conceive.-Friend, look to 't. What dory me messen by thead. What dergin Polonius. [Aside] How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I was a fishmonger; he is far gone, far gone: and truly in my youth i suffered much extremity for love; very near this. I'll Hamlet. Words, words, words. ajestatter Polonius. What is the matter, my lord? apt, ready, irity never in the modern sense. Hamlet. Between who? lord. 191 Polonius. I mean, the matter that you read, my you Hamlet. Into my grave? dischaying decency, fairness life you and, Polonius. Indeed, that is out o' the air. -[Aside] How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so pros perously be delivered of. I will leave him, and suddenly rachetty contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter. My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you. Hamlet. You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal; except my life, except my life, except my life. Polonius. Fare you well, my lord. Hamlet. These tedious old fools! Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN. 216 Polonius. You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is. 220 [Exit Polonius. Guildenstern. My honoured lord! middling averoje. Rosencrantz. My most dear lord! Hamlet. My excellent good friends! How dost thou Guildenstern?—Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both? Rosencrantz. As the indifferent children of the earth. Rosencrantz. Neither, my lord. 230 Hamlet. Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours? What's the news? honest. Rosencrantz. None, my lord, but that the world's grown A metter peces of on the excentional consu Hamlet. Then is doomsday near; but your news is not Let me question more in particular; what have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune, that she sends you to prison hither? true. Guildenstern. Prison, my lord! Hamlet. Denmark 's a prison. Rosencrantz. Then is the world one. 240 plans of corfin Hamlet. A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst. Rosencrantz. We think not so, my lord. Hamlet. Why, then 't is none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison. Rosencrantz. Why, then your ambition makes it one; 't is too narrow for your mind. 249 Hamlet. O God, I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Guildenstern. Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Hamlet. A dream itself is but a shadow. Qan 83 ACT II. SCENE II. Rosencrantz. Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. Hamlet. Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs stranced and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we to ugated the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason. argutal 26x Rosencrantz. We'll wait upon you. Guildenstern. ауш Hamlet. No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest of my servants; for, to speak to you like an honest man, I am most dreadfully attended. But, in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?erved (Sch). Let one ad and Rosencrantz. To visit you, my lord; no other occasion. Hamlet. Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but him with a she was in ". 7.5. accord 272 1 thank you and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak. ♬ it a visit of you Guildenstern. What should we say, my lord? Hamlet. Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour. I know the good king and queen have sent for you. Rosencrantz. To what end, my lord? Hamlet. That you must teach me. you, by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by - what more dear a better proposer could charge you withal, just speaker be even and direct with me, whether you were sent for, or no? Straught furand, plain preet, your But let me conjure 284 Rosencrantz. [Aside to Guildenstern] What say you? Hamlet. [Aside] Nay, then I have an eye of you. If you love me, hold not off. Guildenstern. My lord, we were sent for. Hamlet. I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation pre vent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen "to prevent the time of life" J-e |