Hamlet

GUILDENSTERN No, my lord, rather with choler287.

HAMLET Your wisdom should show itself more richer to

signify289 this to his doctor, for for me to put him to his

purgation290 would perhaps plunge him into far more choler.

GUILDENSTERN Good my lord, put your discourse into some

frame and start292 not so wildly from my affair.

HAMLET I am tame, sir: pronounce.

GUILDENSTERN The queen, your mother, in most great affliction

of spirit, hath sent me to you.

HAMLET You are welcome.

GUILDENSTERN Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the

right breed. If it shall please you to make me a wholesome298

answer, I will do your mother's commandment: if not, your

pardon300 and my return shall be the end of my business.

HAMLET Sir, I cannot.

GUILDENSTERN What, my lord?

HAMLET Make you a wholesome answer: my wit's diseased.

But, sir, such answers as I can make, you shall command, or

rather, as you say, my mother: therefore no more, but to the

matter: my mother, you say--

ROSENCRANTZ Then thus she says: your behaviour hath struck

her into amazement and admiration308.

HAMLET O, wonderful309 son, that can so astonish a mother!

But is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's

admiration?

ROSENCRANTZ She desires to speak with you in her closet312 ere

you go to bed.

HAMLET We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have

you any further trade315 with us?

ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you once did love me.