POLONIUS. Very like a whale. HAMLET. Then will I come to my mother by and by.—They fool me to the top of my bent.—I will come by and by. POLONIUS. I will say so. [Exit.] HAMLET. By and by is easily said. Leave me, friends. [Exeunt all but Hamlet.] Hamlet ’Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. Soft now, to my mother. O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: Let me be cruel, not unnatural. I will speak daggers to her, but use none; My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites. How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent. [Exit.] SCENE III. A room in the Castle. Enter King, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. King, Rosencrantz Guildenstern KING. I like him not, nor stands it safe with us To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you, I your commission will forthwith dispatch, And he to England shall along with you. The terms of our estate may not endure Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow Out of his lunacies. GUILDENSTERN. We will ourselves provide. Most holy and religious fear it is To keep those many many bodies safe That live and feed upon your Majesty. ROSENCRANTZ. The single and peculiar life is bound With all the strength and armour of the mind, To keep itself from ’noyance; but much more That spirit upon whose weal
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