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Pol. 'Tis most true;
And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties
To hear and see the matter.

King. With all my heart; and it doth much content me
To hear him so inclined.— 25
Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,
And drive his purpose on to^{[a 1]} these delights.

Ros. We shall, my lord.
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

King. Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;^{[a 2]}
For we have closely^{[b 1]} sent for Hamlet hither,
That he, as 'twere by accident, may here^{[a 3]} 30
Affront^{[b 2]} Ophelia.
Her father and myself, lawful espials,^{[a 4][b 3]}
Will^{[a 5]} so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen,
We may of their encounter frankly judge,
And gather by him, as he is behaved, 35
If 't be the affliction of his love or no
That thus he suffers for.

Queen. I shall obey you—
And for your^{[a 6]} part, Ophelia, I do wish
That your good beauties be the happy cause
Of Hamlet's wildness; so shall I hope your virtues^{[b 4]} 40

1. 27. on to] F, into Q.
2. 28. too] F, two Q.
3. 30. here] Q, there F.
4. 32. lawful espials] F, omitted in Q.
5. 33. Will] F, Wee'le Q.
6. 38. your] Q, F; my Qq 4-6, Pope and others.

1. 29. closely] secretly, as in King John, IV. i. 133.
2. 31. Affront] confront, encounter, as in Winter's Tale, v. i. 75.
3. 32. espials] spies, as in 1 Henry VI, I. iv. 8.
4. 39, 40. beauties . . . virtues] S. Walker proposed beauty and virtue, which Furness adopts.