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| Flourish. Enter King CLAUDIUS and
Queen GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ and
GUILDENSTERN, and attendants |
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| Trumpets play. CLAUDIUS and
GERTRUDE enter with ROSENCRANTZ,
GUILDENSTERN, and attendants. |
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| | CLAUDIUS |
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Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. |
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Moreover that we much did long to see you, |
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The need we have to use you did provoke |
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Our hasty sending. Something have you heard |
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Of Hamlet's
“transformation”—so call it |
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Since nor th' exterior nor the inward man |
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Resembles that it was. What it should be, |
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More than his father's death, that thus hath put him |
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So much from th' understanding of himself, |
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I cannot dream of. I entreat you both |
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That, being of so young days brought up with him |
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And since so neighbored to his youth and 'havior, |
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That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court |
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Some little time so by your companies |
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To draw him on to pleasures and to gather, |
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So much as from occasion you may glean, |
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Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus |
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That, opened, lies within our remedy. |
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| CLAUDIUS |
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Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. I've wanted
to see you for a long time now, but I sent for you so hastily
because I need your help right away. You've probably
heard about the “change” that's
come over Hamlet—that's the only word for it,
since inside and out he's different from what he was
before. I can't imagine what's made him so
unlike himself, other than his father's death. Since you
both grew up with him and are so familiar with his personality and
behavior, I'm asking you to stay a while at court and
spend some time with him. See if you can get Hamlet to have some
fun, and find out if there's anything in particular
that's bothering him, so we can set about trying to fix
it. |
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| | GERTRUDE |
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Good gentlemen, he hath much talked of you. |
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And sure I am two men there are not living |
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To whom he more adheres. If it will please you |
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To show us so much gentry and good will |
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As to expend your time with us awhile |
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For the supply and profit of our hope, |
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Your visitation shall receive such thanks |
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As fits a king's remembrance. |
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| GERTRUDE |
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Gentlemen, Hamlet's talked a lot about you, and I know
there are no two men alive he's fonder of. If
you'll be so good as to spend some time with us and help
us out, you'll be thanked on a royal scale. |
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