entertainment than yours. You are welcome: but my uncle-father
and aunt-mother are deceived.
Guil.
In what, my dear lord?
Ham.
I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I
know a hawk from a handsaw.
[Enter Polonius.]
Pol.
Well be with you, gentlemen!
Ham.
Hark you, Guildenstern;and you too;at each ear a hearer: that
great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling clouts.
Ros.
Happily he's the second time come to them; for they say an old
man is twice a child.
Ham.
I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players; mark it.You
say right, sir: o' Monday morning; 'twas so indeed.
Pol.
My lord, I have news to tell you.
Ham.
My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in
Rome,
Pol.
The actors are come hither, my lord.
Ham.
Buzz, buzz!
Pol.
Upon my honour,
Ham.
Then came each actor on his ass,
Pol.
The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy,
history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral,
tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene
individable, or poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy nor
Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are