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ROSENCRANTZ
My lord, you once did love me.
HAMLET
And do still, by these pickers and stealers.
ROSENCRANTZ
Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the door
upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend. [330]
HAMLET
Sir, I lack advancement.
ROSENCRANTZ
How can that be, when you have the voice of the King himself for your
succession in Denmark?
HAMLET
Ay, sir, but while the grass grows − the proverb is something musty. [335]
Enter the Players with recorders.
O, the recorders. Let me see one. − To withdraw with you, why do you go
about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me into a toil?
GUILDENSTERN
O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too unmannerly. [340]
HAMLET
I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe?
GUILDENSTERN
My lord, I cannot.
HAMLET
I pray you.
