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Good night, mother. Exeunt severally; Hamlet dragging in Polonius. Act IV Scene I
A room in the castle.
Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. KingThereās matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:
You must translate: ātis fit we understand them.
Where is your son?
Bestow this place on us a little while. Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Ah, mine good lord, what have I seen to-night!
Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend
Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,
Behind the arras hearing something stir,
Whips out his rapier, cries, āA rat, a rat!ā
And, in this brainish apprehension, kills
The unseen good old man.
O heavy deed!
It had been so with us, had we been there:
His liberty is full of threats to all;
To you yourself, to us, to every one.
Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answerād?
It will be laid to us, whose providence
Should have kept short, restrainād and out of haunt,
This mad young man: but so much was our love,
We would not understand what was most fit;
But, like the owner of a foul disease,
To keep it from divulging, let it feed
Even on the pith of Life. Where is he gone?
To draw apart the body he hath killād:
Oāer whom his very madness, like some ore
Among a mineral of metals base,
Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done.
O Gertrude, come away!
The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch,
But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed
We must, with all our majesty and skill,
Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern!
Friends both, go join you with some further aid:
Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
And from his motherās closet hath he draggād him:
Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body
Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this. Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Come, Gertrude, weāll call up our wisest friends;
And let them know, both what we mean to do,
And whatās untimely done. So haply slanderā ā2
Whose whisper oāer the worldās diameter,
As level as the canon to his blank,
Transports his poisonād shot, may miss our name,
And hit the woundless air. O, come away!
My soul is full of discord and dismay. Exeunt.
Another room in the castle.
Enter Hamlet. Hamlet Safely stowed. RosencrantzGuildenstern Within. Hamlet! Lord Hamlet! Hamlet But soft, what noise? who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come. Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Rosencrantz What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? Hamlet Compounded it with dust, whereto ātis kin. Rosencrantz
Tell us where ātis, that we may take it thence
And bear it to the chapel.
Another room in the castle.
Enter King, attended. KingI 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:
Heās loved of the distracted multitude,
Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes:
And where ātis so, the offenderās scourge is weighād,
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.
Where the dead body is bestowād, my lord,
We cannot get from him.
Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safetyā ā
Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve
For that which thou hast doneā āmust 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
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