Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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  • 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.
    Guil.
    Heavens make our presence and our practices
    Pleasant and helpful to him!
    Queen.
    Ay, amen!
    [Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and some Attendants].
    [Enter Polonius.]
    Pol.
    Th' ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,
    Are joyfully return'd.
    King.
    Thou still hast been the father of good news.
    Pol.
    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.
    Pol.
    Give first admittance to the 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, 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.