Act V Scene Ii

Front 1

ROSENCRANTZ: GUILDENSTERN: [Within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!

Back 1

HAMLET What noise? who calls on Hamlet?
O, here they come.

Front 2

ROSENCRANTZ What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?

Back 2

HAMLET Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.

Front 3

ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go
with us to the king.

Back 3

HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with
the body. The king is a thing--

Front 4

GUILDENSTERN A thing, my lord!

Back 4

HAMLET Of nothing

Front 5

KING CLAUDIUS Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?

Back 5

HAMLET

At supper.

Front 6

KING CLAUDIUS At supper! where?

Back 6

HAMLET Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain
convocation of politic worms are e'en at him.

Front 7

KING CLAUDIUS What dost you mean by this?

Back 7

HAMLET

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

Front 8

KING CLAUDIUS

Where is Polonius?

Back 8

HAMLET In heaven; send hither 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.

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KING CLAUDIUS

Go seek him there.

Back 9

HAMLET He will stay till ye come.

Front 10

KING CLAUDIUS 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
For England.

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HAMLET

For England!

Front 11

KING CLAUDIUS Ay, Hamlet.

Back 11

HAMLET Good.

Front 12

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

Back 12

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

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KING CLAUDIUS Thy loving father, Hamlet.

Back 13

HAMLET

My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man
and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England!

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PRINCE FORTINBRAS Go softly on.

Back 14

HAMLET

Good sir, whose powers are these?

Front 15

Captain They are of Norway, sir.

Back 15

HAMLET How purposed, sir, I pray you?

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Captain

Against some part of Poland.

Back 16

HAMLET Who commands them, sir?

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Captain

The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras.

Back 17

HAMLET Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,
Or for some frontier?

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Captain Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.

Back 18

HAMLET Why, then the Polack never will defend it.

Front 19

Captain Yes, it is already garrison'd.

Back 19

HAMLET Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
Will not debate the question of this straw:
This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,
That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.

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Captain

God be wi' you, sir.

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HAMLET

I'll be with you straight go a little before.