of deliberate reflection.'
Claudius fears the people may imagine Hamlet treacherously used, driven
to self-defence, and hurried out of sight to be disposed of.]

[Footnote 8: Emphasis on _he_; the point of importance with the king, is
_where he is_, not where the body is.]

[Footnote 9: Henceforward he is guarded, or at least closely watched,
according to the _Folio_--left much to himself according to the
_Quarto_. 192.]

[Footnote 10: _Not in Quarto._]

[Page 188]

_Ham._ At Supper.

_King._ At Supper? Where?

_Ham._ Not where he eats, but where he is eaten,
[Sidenote: where a is]
a certaine conuocation of wormes are e'ne at him.
[Sidenote: of politique wormes[1]]
Your worm is your onely Emperor for diet. We
fat all creatures else to fat vs, and we fat our selfe
[Sidenote: ourselves]
for Magots. Your fat King, and your leane
Begger is but variable seruice to dishes, but to one
[Sidenote: two dishes]
Table that's the end.

[A]

_King._ What dost thou meane by this?[2]

_Ham._ Nothing but to shew you how a King
may go a Progresse[3] through the guts of a Begger.[4]

_King._ Where is _Polonius_.

_Ham._ In heauen, send thither to see. If your
Messenger finde him not there, seeke him i'th other
place your selfe: but indeed, if you finde him not
[Sidenote: but if indeed you find him not within this]
this moneth, you shall nose him as you go vp the
staires into the Lobby.

_King._ Go seeke him there.

_Ham._ He will stay till ye come.
[Sidenote: A will stay till you]

_K._ _Hamlet_, this deed of thine, for thine especial safety
[Sidenote: this deede for thine especiall]
Which we do tender, as we deerely greeue
For that which thou hast done,[5] must send thee hence
With fierie Quicknesse.[6] Therefore prepare thy selfe,
The Barke is readie, and the winde at helpe,[7]
Th'Associates tend,[8] and euery thing at bent [Sidenote: is bent]
For England.

[Footnote A: _Here in the Quarto:_--

_King_ Alas, alas.[9]

_Ham._ A man may fish with the worme that hath eate of a King, and eate
of the fish that hath fedde of that worme.]

[Footnote 1: --such as Rosincrance and Guildensterne!]

[Footnote 2: I suspect this and the fo