Page 249 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

KING

Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.

QUEEN
Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz.
And I beseech you instantly to visit [35]
My too much changed son. Go, some of you,

And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.

GUILDENSTERN
Heavens make our presence and our practices
Pleasant and helpful to him.

QUEEN
Ay, amen.
Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern [and an Attendant].

Enter Polonius.

POLONIUS

Th’ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, [40]
Are joyfully return’d.

KING
Thou still hast been the father of good news.

POLONIUS
Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege
I hold my duty as I hold my soul,

Both to my God and to my gracious King; [45]
And I do think − or else this brain of mine
Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
As it hath us’d to do − that I have found

The very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy.

KING
O speak of that: that do I long to hear. [50]