Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Ho, Guildenstern!
Friends both, go join you with some further aid.
Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
And from his mother's closet hath he dragged him:
Go seek him out, speak fair, and bring the body
Into the chapel. I pray you haste in this.
Exeunt Gentlemen [Ros. and Guild.]
Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends
To let them know, both what we mean to do
And what's untimely done248. O, come away!
My soul is full of discord and dismay.
Exeunt
[Act 4 Scene 1]
running scene 11
Enter Hamlet
HAMLET Safely stowed1.
GENTLEMEN Hamlet, Lord Hamlet!
Within
HAMLET What noise? Who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come.
Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
With Attendants?
ROSENCRANTZ What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?
HAMLET Compounded5 it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.
ROSENCRANTZ Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence and bear it to the chapel.
HAMLET Do not believe it.
ROSENCRANTZ Believe what?
HAMLET That I can keep your counsel and not mine own10.
Besides, to be demanded of a sponge, what replication11
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