GUILDENSTERN But with much forcing of his disposition13.
ROSENCRANTZ Niggard of question, but of our demands14
Most free in his reply.
GERTRUDE Did you assay16 him to any pastime?
ROSENCRANTZ Madam, it so fell out that certain players
We o'erraught18 on the way: of these we told him,
And there did seem in him a kind of joy
To hear of it: they are about the court,
And, as I think, they have already order
This night to play before him.
POLONIUS 'Tis most true:
And he beseeched me to entreat your majesties
To hear and see the matter.
KING With all my heart, and it doth much content me
To hear him so inclined.
Good gentlemen, give him a further edge28
And drive his purpose on to these delights.
ROSENCRANTZ We shall, my lord.
Exeunt [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern]
KING Sweet Gertrude, leave us too.
Exit Lords
For we have closely32 sent for Hamlet hither,
That he, as 'twere by accident, may here
Affront34 Ophelia:
Her father and myself, lawful espials35,
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 th'affliction of his love or no
That thus he suffers for.