Hamlet

POLONIUS That's good: 'mobled queen' is good.

FIRST PLAYER 'Run barefoot up and down, threat'ning the flame

With bisson rheum, a clout496 about that head

Where late the diadem497 stood, and for a robe,

About her lank and all o'er-teemed498 loins

A blanket, in th'alarm of fear caught up.

Who this had seen500, with tongue in venom steeped,

Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced501:

But if the gods themselves did see her then

When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport

In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,

The instant burst of clamour that she made --

Unless things mortal move them not at all --

Would have made milch507 the burning eyes of heaven,

And passion508 in the gods.'

POLONIUS Look, whe'er509 he has not turned his colour and has

tears in's eyes. Pray you no more.

HAMLET 'Tis well: I'll have thee speak out the rest soon.--

Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed512? Do ye

hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstracts513 and

brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better

have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you lived.

POLONIUS My lord, I will use them according to their desert516.

HAMLET God's bodikins, man, better: use every man after517 his

desert, and who should scape whipping? Use them after your

own honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more

merit is in your bounty520. Take them in.

POLONIUS Come, sirs.

Exit Polonius

HAMLET Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play tomorrow.--