raus and
Guyldensterne.[5]]

_King._ Welcome deere _Rosincrance_ and _Guildensterne_.
Moreouer,[6] that we much did long to see you,
The neede we haue to vse you, did prouoke
[Sidenote: 92] Our hastie sending.[7] Something haue you heard
Of _Hamlets_ transformation: so I call it, [Sidenote: so call]
Since not th'exterior, nor the inward man [Sidenote: Sith nor]
Resembles that it was. What it should bee
More then his Fathers death, that thus hath put him
So much from th'understanding of himselfe,
I cannot deeme of.[8] I intreat you both, [Sidenote: dreame]
That being of so young dayes[9] brought vp with him:
And since so Neighbour'd to[10] his youth,and humour,
[Sidenote: And sith | and hauior,]
That you vouchsafe your rest heere in our Court
Some little time: so by your Companies
To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather
[Sidenote: 116] So much as from Occasions you may gleane,
[Sidenote: occasion]
[A]
That open'd lies within our remedie.[11]

[Footnote A: _Here in the Quarto_:--

Whether ought to vs vnknowne afflicts him thus,]

[Footnote 1:

'to be overwise--to overreach ourselves'
'ambition, which o'erleaps itself,'
--_Macbeth_, act i. sc. 7.]

[Footnote 2: Polonius is a man of faculty. His courtier-life, his
self-seeking, his vanity, have made and make him the fool he is.]

[Footnote 3: He hopes now to get his daughter married to the prince.

We have here a curious instance of Shakspere's not unfrequently
excessive condensation. Expanded, the clause would be like this: 'which,
being kept close, might move more grief by the hiding of love, than to
utter love might move hate:' the grief in the one case might be greater
than the hate in the other would be. It verges on confusion, and may not
be as Shakspere wrote it, though it is like his way.

_1st Q._

Lets to the king, this madnesse may prooue,
Though wilde a while, yet more true to thy loue.]

[Footnote 4: _Not in Quarto._]

[Footnote 5: _Q._ has not _Cum alijs._]

[Footnote 6: 'Moreover that &c.': _moreover_ is here used as a
preposition, with the rest of the clause for its objective.]

[Footnote 7: Rosincrance and Guildensterne are, from the first and
throughout, the creatures of the king.]

[Footnote 8: The king's conscience makes him suspicious