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HAMLET

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk
from a handsaw. [375]

Enter Polonius.

POLONIUS
Well be with you, gentlemen.

HAMLET
Hark you, Guildenstern, and you too − at each ear a hearer. That great baby

you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.

ROSENCRANTZ

Happily he is the second time come to [380] them, for they say an old man is
twice a child.

HAMLET
I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players. Mark it. − You say right,
sir, a Monday morning, ’twas then indeed.

POLONIUS

My lord, I have news to tell you. [385]

HAMLET

My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome −

POLONIUS
The actors are come hither, my lord.

HAMLET
Buzz, buzz.

POLONIUS
Upon my honour − [390]

HAMLET