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Scene I. A room in the Castle. Hamlet ACT IV [Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] KING There’s matter in these sighs. These profound heaves You must translate: ‘tis fit we understand them. Where is your son? QUEEN Bestow this place on us a little while. [To Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who go out.] Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night! KING What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet? QUEEN 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 ‘A rat, a rat!’ And in this brainish apprehension, kills The unseen good old man. KING 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 answer’d? It will be laid to us, whose providence Should have kept short, restrain’d, 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? QUEEN To draw apart the body he hath kill’d: O’er whom his very madness, like some ore Among a mineral of metals base, 92 Hamlet Shows itself pure: he weeps for what is done. KING 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! [Re-enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.] Friends both, go join you with some further aid: Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, And from his mother’s closet hath he dragg’d 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, we’ll call up our wisest friends; And let them know both what we mean to do And what’s untimely done: so haply slander,-- Whose whisper o’er the world’s diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank, Transports his poison’d shot,--may miss our name, And hit the woundless air.--O, come away! My soul is full of discord and dismay. [Exeunt.] Scene II. Another room in the Castle. [Enter Hamlet.] HAMLET Safely stowed. ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN [Within.] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet! HAMLET 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 93
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Scene I. A room in the Castle.<br />
<strong>Hamlet</strong><br />
ACT IV<br />
[Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]<br />
KING<br />
There’s matter in these sighs. These profound heaves<br />
You must translate: ‘tis fit we understand them.<br />
Where is your son?<br />
QUEEN<br />
Bestow this place on us a little while.<br />
[To Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who go out.]<br />
Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night!<br />
KING<br />
What, Gertrude? How does <strong>Hamlet</strong>?<br />
QUEEN<br />
Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend<br />
Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit<br />
Behind the arras hearing something stir,<br />
Whips out his rapier, cries ‘A rat, a rat!’<br />
And in this brainish apprehension, kills<br />
The unseen good old man.<br />
KING<br />
O heavy deed!<br />
It had been so with us, had we been there:<br />
His liberty is full of threats to all;<br />
To you yourself, to us, to every one.<br />
Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer’d?<br />
It will be laid to us, whose providence<br />
Should have kept short, restrain’d, and out of haunt<br />
This mad young man. But so much was our love<br />
We would not understand what was most fit;<br />
But, like the owner of a foul disease,<br />
To keep it from divulging, let it feed<br />
Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone?<br />
QUEEN<br />
To draw apart the body he hath kill’d:<br />
O’er whom his very madness, like some ore<br />
Among a mineral of metals base,<br />
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<strong>Hamlet</strong><br />
Shows itself pure: he weeps for what is done.<br />
KING<br />
O Gertrude, come away!<br />
The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch<br />
But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed<br />
We must with all our majesty and skill<br />
Both countenance and excuse.--Ho, Guildenstern!<br />
[Re-enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]<br />
Friends both, go join you with some further aid:<br />
<strong>Hamlet</strong> in madness hath Polonius slain,<br />
And from his mother’s closet hath he dragg’d him:<br />
Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body<br />
Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.<br />
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]<br />
Come, Gertrude, we’ll call up our wisest friends;<br />
And let them know both what we mean to do<br />
And what’s untimely done: so haply slander,--<br />
Whose whisper o’er the world’s diameter,<br />
As level as the cannon to his blank,<br />
Transports his poison’d shot,--may miss our name,<br />
And hit the woundless air.--O, come away!<br />
My soul is full of discord and dismay.<br />
[Exeunt.]<br />
Scene II. Another room in the Castle.<br />
[Enter <strong>Hamlet</strong>.]<br />
HAMLET<br />
Safely stowed.<br />
ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN<br />
[Within.] <strong>Hamlet</strong>! Lord <strong>Hamlet</strong>!<br />
HAMLET<br />
What noise? who calls on <strong>Hamlet</strong>? O, here they come.<br />
[Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]<br />
ROSENCRANTZ<br />
What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?<br />
HAMLET<br />
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