Than to entreaty.
Guildenstern
We both obey,
And here give up ourselves, in the full bent,
To lay our service freely at your feet
To be commanded.
King
Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.
Queen
Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz
And I beseech you instantly to visit
My too much changed son. Go, some of you,
And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.
Guildenstern
Heavens make our presence and our practices
Pleasant and helpful to him.
Queen
Ay, amen.
[Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and some Attendants]
[Enter Polonius]
Polonius
Th'ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,
Are joyfully return'd.
King
Thou still hast been the father of good news.
Polonius
Have I, my lord? Assure you, my good liege,
I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,
Both to my God and to my gracious King:
And I do think, – or else this brain of mine
Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
As it hath us'd to do-that I have found
The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
King
O speak of that, that do I long to hear.
Polonius
Give first admittance to th'ambassadors;
My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.
King
Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
[Exit Polonius]
He tells me, my sweet queen, that he hath found
The head and source of all your son's distemper.
Queen
I doubt it is no other but the main,
His father's death and our o'erhasty marriage.
King
Well, we shall sift him.
[Enter Polonius with Voltemand nd Cornelius]
Welcome, my good friends!