Another Room in the Castle.
 Enter KING, with two or three LORDS.

King	I have sent to seek him, and to find the body.
	How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!
	Yet must not we put the strong law on him:
	He's loved of the distracted multitude,
	Who like not in their judgement, but their eyes;
	And where 'tis so, th' offender's scourge is weighed,
	But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,
	This sudden sending him away must seem
	Deliberate pause. Diseases desperate grown
	By desperate appliance are relieved,
	Or not at all.

                            Enter ROSENCRANTZ.

							How now! What hath befall'n?

Rosencrantz	Where the dead body is bestowed, my lord,
	We cannot get from him.

King									But where is he?

Rosencrantz	Without, my lord, guarded to know your pleasure.

King	Bring him before us.

Rosencrantz	Ho, Guildenstern! Bring in the lord.

                     Enter GUILDENSTERN with HAMLET.

King	Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?

Hamlet	At supper.

King	At supper! Where?

Hamlet	Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain 
	convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is 
	your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to 
	fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots; your fat king and 
	your lean beggar is but variable service - two dishes, but 
	to one table: that's the end.

King	Alas, alas!

Hamlet	A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and 
	eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

King 	What dost thou mean by this?

Hamlet	Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress 
	through the guts of a beggar.

King	Where is Polonius?

Hamlet	In heaven; send thither to see. If your messenger find him 
	not there, seek him i'th' other place yourself. But if 
	indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose 
	him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

King	[To some LORDS.] Go seek him there.

Hamlet	A' will stay till you come.
												[Exeunt LORDS.

King	Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety-
	Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve
	For that which thou hast done - must send thee hence
	With fiery quickness. Therefore prepare thyself.
	The bark is ready, and the wind at help,
	Th' associates tend, and everything is bent
	For England.

Hamlet	For England?

King	Ay, Hamlet.

Hamlet	Good.

King	So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.

Hamlet	I see a cherub that sees them. But come, for England. 
	Farewell, dear mother.

King	Thy loving father, Hamlet.

Hamlet	My mother. Father and mother is man and wife, man and wife 
	is one flesh, and so - my mother. Come, for England.
												[Exit.

King	[To ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN.]
	Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard.
	Delay it not; I'll have him hence tonight.
	Away! - for everything is sealed and done
	That else leans on th' affair. Pray you, make haste.
						   [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN.
	And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught-
	As my great power thereof may give thee sense,
	Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
	After the Danish sword, and thy free awe
	Pays homage to us - thou mayst not coldly set
	Our sovereign process, which imports at full,
	By letters congruing to that effect,
	The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England;
	For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
	And thou must cure me. Till I know 'tis done,
	Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun.
												[Exit.
