Hamlet

As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays98.

This physic99 but prolongs thy sickly days.

Exit

KING My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Exit

[Act 3 Scene 4]

running scene 10

Enter Queen and Polonius

POLONIUS He will come straight. Look you lay home1 to him: Tell him his pranks have been too broad2 to bear with, And that your grace hath screened and stood between

Much heat4 and him. I'll silence me e'en here.

Pray you, be round5 with him.

Within

HAMLET Mother, mother, mother!

GERTRUDE I'll warrant you,

Fear me not: withdraw, I hear him coming.

Polonius hides behind the arras

Enter Hamlet

HAMLET Now, mother, what's the matter?

GERTRUDE Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.

HAMLET Mother, you have my father much offended.

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

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

GERTRUDE Why, how now, Hamlet?

HAMLET What's the matter now?

GERTRUDE Have you forgot me?

HAMLET No, by the rood18, not so: You are the queen19, your husband's brother's wife, But -- would you were not so -- you are my mother.

GERTRUDE Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak.

HAMLET Come, come, and sit you down, you shall not budge: You go not till I set you up a glass23

Where you may see the inmost part of you.