Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been friends with Hamlet for a long time now and keep on acting like they are his friends, but now they are only friends hiding in sheep's skin to spy. Rosencrantz answers Hamlet's question of why they are doing in Denmark, "To visit you my lord, no other occasion" (II.ii.258). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern came from the university, to see Hamlet. They mostly act like they are just there to see their friend and be with him, due to the death of Hamlet's father. While they were just using their own friendship to spy for Claudius, "Why man, they did make love to this employment. / They are not near my conscience. / Their defeat / Does by their own insinuation grow" (V.ii.57-59). Both of them have been using their
