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Another Room in the Castle.
Enter KING, with two or three LORDS.
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:
He's loved of the distracted multitude,
Who like not in their judgement, but their eyes;
And where 'tis so, th' offender's scourge is weighed,
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,
Or not at all.
Enter ROSENCRANTZ.
How now! What hath befall'n?
Rosencrantz Where the dead body is bestowed, my lord,
We cannot get from him.
King But where is he?
Rosencrantz Without, my lord, guarded to know your pleasure.
King Bring him before us.
Rosencrantz Ho, Guildenstern! Bring in the lord.
Enter GUILDENSTERN with HAMLET.
King Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?
Hamlet At supper.
King At supper! Where?
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 Alas, alas!
Hamlet 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?
Hamlet Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress
through the guts of a beggar.
King Where is Polonius?
Hamlet In heaven; send thither to see. If your messenger find him
not there, seek him i'th' other place yourself. But if
indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose
him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.
King [To some LORDS.] Go seek him there.
Hamlet A' will stay till you come.
[Exeunt LORDS.
King Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety-
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,
Th' associates tend, and everything is bent
For England.
Hamlet For England?
King Ay, Hamlet.
Hamlet Good.
King 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 Thy loving father, Hamlet.
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 [To ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN.]
Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard.
Delay it not; I'll have him hence tonight.
Away! - for everything is sealed and done
That else leans on th' 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
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.