Page 293 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

GUILDENSTERN
Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.

HAMLET
Sir, a whole history. [290]

GUILDENSTERN
The King, sir −

HAMLET
Ay, sir, what of him?

GUILDENSTERN
Is in his retirement marvellous distempered.

HAMLET
With drink, sir?

GUILDENSTERN
No, my lord, with choler. [295]

HAMLET
Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to the doctor, for
for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into more
choler.

GUILDENSTERN
Good my lord, put your discourse [300] into some frame, and start not so

wildly from my affair.

HAMLET

I am tame, sir. Pronounce.

GUILDENSTERN