And drive his purpose on to these delights.

　　ROSENCRANTZ

　　We shall, my lord.

　　Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN

　　KING CLAUDIUS

　　Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;

　　For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,

　　That he, as 'twere by accident, may here

　　Affront Ophelia:

　　Her father and myself, lawful espials,

　　Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,

　　We may of their encounter frankly judge,

　　And gather by him, as he is behaved,

　　If 't be the affliction of his love or no

　　That thus he suffers for.

　　QUEEN GERTRUDE

　　I shall obey you.

　　And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish

　　That your good beauties be the happy cause

　　Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues

　　Will bring him to his wonted way again,

　　To both your honours.

　　OPHELIA

　　Madam, I wish it may.

　　Exit QUEEN GERTRUDE

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you,

　　We will bestow ourselves.

　　To OPHELIA

　　Read on this book;

　　That show of such an exercise may colour

　　Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,--

　　'Tis too much proved--that with devotion's visage

　　And pious action we do sugar o'er

　　The devil himself.

　　KING CLAUDIUS

　　[Aside] O, 'tis too true!

　　How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!

　　The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art,

　　Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it

　　Than is my deed to my most painted word:

　　O heavy burthen!

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord.

　　Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS

　　Enter HAMLET