SCENE IV. Another room in the Castle.

 Enter Queen and Polonius. 

Queen

Polonius

 POLONIUS. He will come straight. Look you lay home to him, Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, And that your Grace hath screen’d and stood between Much heat and him. I’ll silence me e’en here. Pray you be round with him. 

 HAMLET. [Within.] Mother, mother, mother. 

 QUEEN. I’ll warrant you, Fear me not. Withdraw, I hear him coming. 

 [Polonius goes behind the arras.] 

Polonius

 Enter Hamlet. 

Hamlet

 HAMLET. Now, mother, what’s the matter? 

 QUEEN. Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. 

 HAMLET. Mother, you have my father much offended. 

 QUEEN. Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. 

 HAMLET. Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. 

 QUEEN. Why, how now, Hamlet? 

 HAMLET. What’s the matter now? 

 QUEEN. Have you forgot me? 

 HAMLET. No, by the rood, not so. You are the Queen, your husband’s brother’s wife, And, would it were not so. You are my mother. 

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