Captain

　　I will do't, my lord.

　　PRINCE FORTINBRAS

　　Go softly on.

　　Exeunt FORTINBRAS and Soldiers

　　Enter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others

　　HAMLET

　　Good sir, whose powers are these?

　　Captain

　　They are of Norway, sir.

　　HAMLET

　　How purposed, sir, I pray you?

　　Captain

　　Against some part of Poland.

　　HAMLET

　　Who commands them, sir?

　　Captain

　　The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras.

　　HAMLET

　　Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,

　　Or for some frontier?

　　Captain

　　Truly to speak, and with no addition,

　　We go to gain a little patch of ground

　　That hath in it no profit but the name.

　　To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;

　　Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole

　　A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.

　　HAMLET

　　Why, then the Polack never will defend it.

　　Captain

　　Yes, it is already garrison'd.

　　HAMLET

　　Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats

　　Will not debate the question of this straw:

　　This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,

　　That inward breaks, and shows no cause without

　　Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.

　　Captain

　　God be wi' you, sir.

　　Exit

　　ROSENCRANTZ

　　Wilt please you go, my lord?

　　HAMLET

　　I'll be with you straight go a little before.

　　Exeunt all except HAMLET

　　How all occasions do inform against me,

　　And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,

　　If his chief good and market of his time

　　Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

　　Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,