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Act 4, page 2

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ACT IV SCENE III� Setting: Another room in the castle.

Enter KING CLAUDIUS, attended.�

KING CLAUDIUS� 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: � � He's loved of the distracted multitude, � Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes; � � And where tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd, � � But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even, � � This sudden sending him away must seem � � Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown � By desperate appliance are relieved, �10 � Or not at all. � � Enter ROSENCRANTZ and others. � � How now! what hath befall'n? � ROSENCRANTZ� Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord, � � We cannot get from him. KING CLAUDIUS� But where is he? � ROSENCRANTZ� Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure. � KING CLAUDIUS� Bring him before us. � ROSENCRANTZ� Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord. � � Enter HAMLET and GUILDENSTERN. � KING CLAUDIUS� Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? HAMLET� At supper. � KING CLAUDIUS� At supper! where? �19 HAMLET� Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain � � convocation of politic worms are e'en 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: � � that's the end. � KING CLAUDIUS� Alas, alas! HAMLET� A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a � � king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. � KING CLAUDIUS� What dost you mean by this? � HAMLET� Nothing but to show you how a king may go a � � progress through the guts of a beggar. �31 KING CLAUDIUS� Where is Polonius? � HAMLET� In heaven; send hither 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 CLAUDIUS� Go seek him there. � � To some Attendants. � HAMLET� He will stay till ye come. � � Exeunt Attendants. � KING CLAUDIUS� Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,–– � � Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve �40 � 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 � � For England. HAMLET� For England. � KING CLAUDIUS� Ay, Hamlet. � HAMLET� Good. � KING CLAUDIUS� So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes. � HAMLET� I see a cherub that sees them. But, come; for � England! Farewell, dear mother. � KING CLAUDIUS� Thy loving father, Hamlet. �49 HAMLET� My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man � � and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England! � � Exit � KING CLAUDIUS� Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard; � Delay it not; I'll have him hence to–night: � � Away! for every thing is seal'd and done � � That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste. � � Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN. � � And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught–– � � As my great power thereof may give thee sense, � Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red � � After the Danish sword, and thy free awe �60 � Pays homage to us––thou mayst not coldly set � � Our sovereign process; which imports at full, � � By letters congruing to that effect, � The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; � � For like the hectic in my blood he rages, � � And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done, � � Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun. � � Exit

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Act 4, page 3

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ACT IV SCENE IV� Setting: A plain in Denmark.

Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching.�

PRINCE FORTINBRAS� Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king; � � Tell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras � � Craves the conveyance of a promised march � � Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous. � If that his majesty would aught with us, � � We shall express our duty in his eye; � � And let him know so. � Captain� I will do't, my lord. � PRINCE FORTINBRAS� Go softly on. � Exeunt FORTINBRAS and Soldiers. � � Enter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others. � HAMLET� Good sir, whose powers are these? � Captain� They are of Norway, sir. �10 HAMLET� How purposed, sir, I pray you? � Captain� Against some part of Poland. � HAMLET� Who commands them, sir? Captain� The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras. � HAMLET� Goes it against the main of Poland, sir, � � Or for some frontier? � Captain� Truly to speak, and with no addition, � � We go to gain a little patch of ground � That hath in it no profit but the name. � � To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; �20 � Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole � � A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee. � HAMLET� Why, then the Polack never will defend it. Captain� Yes, it is already garrison'd. � HAMLET� Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats � � Will not debate the question of this straw: � � This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace, � � That inward breaks, and shows no cause without � Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir. � Captain� God be wi' you, sir. �30 � Exit � ROSENCRANTZ� Will't please you go, my lord? � HAMLET� I'll be with you straight go a little before. � � Exeunt all except HAMLET. � � How all occasions do inform against me, � And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, � � If his chief good and market of his time � � Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. � � Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, � � Looking before and after, gave us not � That capability and god–like reason � � To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be � � Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple �40 � Of thinking too precisely on the event, � � A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom � And ever three parts coward, I do not know � � Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' � � Sith I have cause and will and strength and means � � To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: � � Witness this army of such mass and charge � Led by a delicate and tender prince, � � Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd � � Makes mouths at the invisible event, �50 � Exposing what is mortal and unsure � � To all that fortune, death and danger dare, � Even for an egg–shell. Rightly to be great � � Is not to stir without great argument, � � But greatly to find quarrel in a straw � � When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, � � That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, � Excitements of my reason and my blood, � � And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see � � The imminent death of�twenty thousand men, �60 � That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, � � Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot � Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, � Which is not tomb enough and continent � � To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, � � My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! � � Exit