No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet: Act 4, scene ii

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.

	ROSENCRANTZ
5	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.

	ROSENCRANTZ
10	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?