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Enter King, Queene, Rosincrane, and Guildensterne Cum alijs.
King. Welcome deere Rosincrance and Guildensterne. / Moreouer, that we much did long to see you, / The neede we haue to vse you, did prouoke / Our hastie sending. Something haue you heard / Of Hamlets transformation: so I call it, / Since not th' exterior, nor the inward man / Resembles that it was. What it should bee / More then his Fathers death, that thus hath put him / So much from th' vnderstanding of himselfe, / I cannot deeme of. I intreat you both, / That being of so young dayes brought vp with him: / And since so Neighbour'd to his youth, and humour, / 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 / So much as from Occasions you may gleane, / That open'd lies within our remedie