Page 273 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Most free in his reply.

QUEEN
Did you assay him
To any pastime? [15]

ROSENCRANTZ
Madam, it so fell out that certain players
We o’erraught on the way. Of these we told him,

And there did seem in him a kind of joy
To hear of it. They are here about the court,
And, as I think, they have already order [20]
This night to play before him.

POLONIUS

’Tis most true,
And he beseech’d me to entreat your Majesties
To hear and see the matter.

KING
With all my heart; and it doth much content me
To hear him so inclin’d. [25]

Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,
And drive his purpose into these delights.

ROSENCRANTZ
We shall, my lord.
Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

KING
Sweet Gertrude, leave us too,

For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither
That he, as ’twere by accident, may here [30]
Affront Ophelia.
Her father and myself, lawful espials,

We’ll so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen,
We may of their encounter frankly judge,