HAMLET. William Shakespeare

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       That, open’d, lies within our remedy.

       Queen.

       Good gentlemen, he hath much talk’d of you,

       And sure I am two men there are not living

       To whom he more adheres. If it will please you

       To show us so much gentry and goodwill

       As to expend your time with us awhile,

       For the supply and profit of our hope,

       Your visitation shall receive such thanks

       As fits a king’s remembrance.

       Ros.

       Both your majesties

       Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,

       Put your dread pleasures more into command

       Than to entreaty.

       Guil.

       We both obey,

       And here give up ourselves, in the full bent,

       To lay our service freely at your feet,

       To be commanded.

       King.

       Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.

       Queen.

       Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:

       And I beseech you instantly to visit

       My too-much-changed son.—Go, some of you,

       And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.

       Guil.

       Heavens make our presence and our practices

       Pleasant and helpful to him!

       Queen.

       Ay, amen!

       [Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and some Attendants].

       [Enter Polonius.]

       Pol.

       Th’ ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,

       Are joyfully return’d.

       King.

       Thou still hast been the father of good news.

       Pol.

       Have I, my lord? Assure you, my good liege,

       I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,

       Both to my God and to my gracious king:

       And I do think,—or else this brain of mine

       Hunts not the trail of policy so sure

       As it hath us’d to do,—that I have found

       The very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy.

       King.

       O, speak of that; that do I long to hear.

       Pol.

       Give first admittance to the ambassadors;

       My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.

       King.

       Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.

       [Exit Polonius.]

       He tells me, my sweet queen, he hath found

       The head and source of all your son’s distemper.

       Queen.

       I doubt it is no other but the main,—

       His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.

       King.

       Well, we shall sift him.

       [Enter Polonius, with Voltimand and Cornelius.]

       Welcome, my good friends!

       Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?

       Volt.

       Most fair return of greetings and desires.

       Upon our first, he sent out to suppress

       His nephew’s levies; which to him appear’d

       To be a preparation ‘gainst the Polack;

       But, better look’d into, he truly found

       It was against your highness; whereat griev’d,—

       That so his sickness, age, and impotence

       Was falsely borne in hand,—sends out arrests

       On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys;

       Receives rebuke from Norway; and, in fine,

       Makes vow before his uncle never more

       To give th’ assay of arms against your majesty.

       Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,

       Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee;

       And his commission to employ those soldiers,

       So levied as before, against the Polack:

       With an entreaty, herein further shown,

       [Gives a paper.]

       That it might please you to give quiet pass

       Through your dominions for this enterprise,

       On such regards of safety and allowance

       As therein are set down.

       King.

       It likes us well;

       And at our more consider’d time we’ll read,

       Answer, and think upon this business.

       Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour:

       Go to your rest; at night we’ll feast together:

       Most welcome home!

       [Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius.]

       Pol.

       This business is well ended.—

       My liege, and madam,—to expostulate

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