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Exeunt [Ros. and Guild. with some Attendants]
GERTRUDE Amen.
Enter Polonius
POLONIUS Th'ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,
Are joyfully returned.
KING Thou still45 hast been the father of good news.
POLONIUS Have I, my lord? I assure you, my good liege,
I hold47 my duty, as I hold my soul,
Both to my God and to my gracious king:
And I do think, or else this brain of mine
Hunts not the trail of policy50 so sure
As I have used to do, that I have found
The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
KING O, speak of that: that I do long to hear.
POLONIUS Give first admittance to th'ambassadors:
My news shall be the fruit55 to that great feast.
KING Thyself do grace56 to them and bring them in.--
[Exit Polonius]
He tells me, my sweet queen, that he hath found
The head and source of all your son's distemper58.
GERTRUDE I doubt it is no other but the main59:
His father's death and our o'erhasty marriage.
Enter Polonius, Voltemand and Cornelius
KING Well, we shall sift him61.-- Welcome, good friends.
Say, Voltemand, what from our brother Norway?
VOLTEMAND Most fair return of greetings and desires63.
Upon our first64, he sent out to suppress
His nephew's levies, which to him appeared
To be a preparation gainst the Polack66,
But, better looked into, he truly found
