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But, in the beaten way of friendship, what
make^{[b 1]} you at Elsinore? 280

Ros. To visit you, my lord; no other occasion.

Ham. Beggar that I am, I am even^{[a 1]} poor in thanks;
but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my
thanks are too dear a halfpenny.^{[b 2]} Were you
not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is 285
it a free visitation? Come,^{[a 2]} deal justly with
me; come, come; nay, speak.

Guil. What should we say, my lord?

Ham. Why,^{[a 3]} any thing,^{[a 4]} but^{[b 3]} to the purpose. You
were sent for; and there is a kind of^{[a 5]} confession 290
in your looks, which your modesties have not
craft enough to colour: I know the good king
and queen have sent for you.

Ros. To what end, my lord?

Ham. That you must teach me. But let me conjure 295
you, by the rights of our fellowship, by
the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation
of our ever-preserved love, and by what more
dear a better proposer^{[b 4]} could^{[a 6]} charge you withal,
be even^{[b 5]} and direct with me, whether you were 300
sent for, or no.

Ros. [Aside to Guildenstern.]^{[a 7]} What say you?

1. 282. even] F, ever Q.
2. 286, 287. Come] F, come, come Q.
3. 289. Why] omitted in Q.
4. 289. any thing, but] Q 6, any thing but Q, any thing. But F.
5. 290. of] Q, omitted in F.
6. 299. could] F, can Q.
7. 302. Aside to Guildenstern] Globe ed.; To Guilden. Theobald; To Hamlet Delius conject.

1. 280. make] do, as in I. ii. 164.
2. 284. a halfpenny] at a halfpenny.
3. 289. but] only. Clarke thinks it also includes the effect of "except"—a covert sarcasm.
4. 299. proposer] speaker. So "propose," speak, in Much Ado, III. 1. 3.
5. 300. even] plain, honest.