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| Enter CLAUDIUS,
GERTRUDE, POLONIUS,
OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and
GUILDENSTERN |
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| CLAUDIUS, GERTRUDE,
POLONIUS, OPHELIA,
ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN
enter. |
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| | CLAUDIUS |
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And can you by no drift of conference |
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Get from him why he puts on this confusion, |
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Grating so harshly all his days of quiet |
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With turbulent and dangerous lunacy? |
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| CLAUDIUS |
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And you can't put your heads together and figure out
why he's acting so dazed and confused, ruining his peace
and quiet with such dangerous displays of lunacy? |
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| | ROSENCRANTZ |
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He does confess he feels himself distracted. |
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But from what cause he will by no means speak. |
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| ROSENCRANTZ |
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He admits he feels confused, but refuses to say why. |
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| | GUILDENSTERN |
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Nor do we find him forward to be sounded. |
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But with a crafty madness keeps aloof |
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When we would bring him on to some confession |
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Of his true state. |
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| GUILDENSTERN |
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And he's not exactly eager to be interrogated.
He's very sly and dances around our questions when we try
to get him to talk about how he feels. |
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| | GERTRUDE |
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Did he receive you well? |
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| GERTRUDE |
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Did he treat you well when you saw him? |
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| | ROSENCRANTZ |
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Most like a gentleman. |
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| ROSENCRANTZ |
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Yes, in a very gentlemanly way. |
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| | GUILDENSTERN |
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But with much forcing of his disposition. |
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| GUILDENSTERN |
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But it seemed like he had to force himself to be nice to
us. |
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| | ROSENCRANTZ |
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Niggard of question, but of our demands |
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Most free in his reply. |
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| ROSENCRANTZ |
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He didn't ask questions, but answered ours at
length. |
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| | GERTRUDE |
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Did you assay him? |
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To any pastime? |
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| GERTRUDE |
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Did you try tempting him with some entertainment? |
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| | ROSENCRANTZ |
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Madam, it so fell out, that certain players |
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We o'erraught on the way. Of these we told him, |
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And there did seem in him a kind of joy |
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| ROSENCRANTZ |
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Madam, some actors happened to cross our paths on the way here. We
told Hamlet about them, and that seemed to do him good. |
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