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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:47:10 GMT
GUILDENSTERN
Heavens make our presence and our practises
Pleasant and helpful to him!
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:47:32 GMT
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Ay, amen!
Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and some Attendants
Enter POLONIUS
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:48:01 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,
Are joyfully return'd.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:48:11 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
Thou still hast been the father of good news.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:48:23 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
Have I, my lord? I assure 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 used to do, that I have found
The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:48:33 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
O, speak of that; that do I long to hear.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:48:58 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
Give first admittance to the ambassadors;
My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:49:21 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
Exit POLONIUS
He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found
The head and source of all your son's distemper.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:49:37 GMT
QUEEN GERTRUDE
I doubt it is no other but the main;
His father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:49:55 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
Well, we shall sift him.
Re-enter POLONIUS, with VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS
Welcome, my good friends!
Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:50:12 GMT
VOLTIMAND
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 grieved,
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 the 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,
Giving 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.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:50:27 GMT
KING CLAUDIUS
It likes us well;
And at our more consider'd time well 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
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:50:38 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:50:50 GMT
QUEEN GERTRUDE
More matter, with less art.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 11, 2014 17:51:12 GMT
LORD POLONIUS
Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity;
And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure;
But farewell it, for I will use no art.
Mad let us grant him, then: and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause:
Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend.
I have a daughter--have while she is mine--
Who, in her duty and obedience, mark,
Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise.
Reads
'To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most
beautified Ophelia,'--
That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is
a vile phrase: but you shall hear. Thus:
Reads
'In her excellent white bosom, these, & c.'
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