No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet: Act 4, Scene 2

No Fear Shakespheare

William Shakespeare

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	Original Text	Modern Text
	Enter HAMLET	HAMLET enters.
	HAMLET Safely stowed.	HAMLET The body is safely hidden.
	GENTLEMEN (from within) Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!	GENTLEMEN (from offstage) Hamlet, Lord Hamlet!
	HAMLET But soft, what noise? Who calls on Hamlet? Oh, here they come.	HAMLET What’s that noise? Who’s calling for Hamlet? Oh, here they come.
	Enter ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others	ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN enter with others.
5	ROSENCRANTZ What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?	ROSENCRANTZ What have you done with the corpse, my lord?
	HAMLET Compounded it with dust, whereto ’tis kin.	HAMLET I’ve gotten it dirty—ashes to ashes, and dust to dust.
	ROSENCRANTZ Tell us where ’tis, that we may take it thence And bear it to the chapel.	ROSENCRANTZ But tell us where it is, so we can take it to the chapel.
	HAMLET Do not believe it.	HAMLET Don’t believe it.
10	ROSENCRANTZ Believe what?	ROSENCRANTZ Believe what?
	HAMLET That I can keep your counsel and not mine own. Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! What replication should be made by the son of a king?	HAMLET That I’d take your advice rather than keep my own secret. Besides, you’re a sponge! What is the son of a king supposed to say to a sponge?
	ROSENCRANTZ Take you me for a sponge, my lord?	ROSENCRANTZ You think I’m a sponge, my lord?