When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. Ros. I understand you not, my lord. Ham. I am glad of it: A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. Ros. My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. Ham. The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing Guil. A thing, my lord? Ham. Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after." [Exeunt, SCENE III, Another Room in the same. Enter King, attended. 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 lov'd of the distracted multitude, Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes; And, where 'tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd, Enter ROSENCRANTZ. Or not at all.-How now? what hath befallen? King. But where is he? Ros. Without, my lord; guarded, to know your plea sure. Of nothing:] Should it not be, Or nothing? When the courtiers remark that Hamlet has contemptuously called the king a thing, Hamlet defends himself by observing, that the king must be a thing or nothing.-JOHNSON. - Hide for, &c.] There is a play among children, called Hide for, and all after.-HANMER. King. Bring him before us. Ros. Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord. Enter HAMLET and GUILDENSTERN. King. Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? King. At supper? where? Ham. Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politick 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 ! Ham. 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? Ham. Nothing, but to show you how a king may go a progress' through the guts of a beggar. King. Where is Polonius? Ham. In heaven; send thither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i'the other place yourself. But, indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby. King. Go seek him there. [To some Attendants. [Exeunt Attendants. Ham. He will stay till you come. 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,* The associates tend, and every thing is bent - go a progress-] Alluding to the royal journeys of state, always styled progresses; a familiar idea to those who, like our author, lived during the reigns of queen Elizabeth and king James I.-STEEVENS. at help,] i. e. At hand, ready to assist you.-RITSON. King. So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes. Ham. I see a cherub, that sees them.-But, come; for England!-Farewell, dear mother. King. Thy loving father, Hamlet. Ham. My mother: Father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England. [Exit. King. Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard; Delay it not, I'll have him hence to-night : Away; for every thing is seal'd and done That else leans on the affair: Pray you, make haste. [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUIL DENSTERN. And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught, The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; SCENE IV. A Plain in Denmark. Enter FORTINBBAS, and Forces, marching. For. Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king; Craves the conveyance of a promis'd march And let him know so. y set-] i. e. Value, estimate. 2 Howe'er my haps,] i. e. Whatever befall me. a [Exit. in his eye,] i.e. In his presence. The phrase appears to have been formularly.-STEEVENS. Cap. For. Go softly on. I will do't, my lord. [Exeunt FORTINBRAS and Forces. Enter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, &c. Cap. The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras. Cap. Truly to speak, sir, and with no addition, A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee. Ham. Why, then the Polack never will defend it. Ham. Two thousand souls, and twenty thousand ducats, Will not debate the question of this straw: This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace; Cap. God be wi'you, sir. Ros. [Exit Captain. Will't please you go, my lord? Ham. I will be with you straight. Go a little before. [Exeunt Ros. and GUIL. How all occasions do inform against me, Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, b market-] i. e. Profit. large discourse,] Such latitude of comprehension, such power of reviewing the past, and anticipating the future.-Jounson. VOL. VIII. Looking before, and after, gave us not To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be A thought, which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom, Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do; Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means, To do't. Examples, gross as earth, exhort me: Go to their graves like beds; fight for a plot [Exit. encloses. craven- -] i. e. Cowardly. plot-] i. e. A piece, or portion. continent,] Continent, in our author, means that which comprehends or |