[1561] _on_] om. Hanmer. [1562] _There's ... meet._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. [1563] _knavery_] _naiveté_ or _naiverie_ Becket conj. [1564] _the sport_] _true sport_ Anon. conj. _enginer_] Qq. _engineer_ Q (1676) and Pope. [1565] _petar_] Qq. _petard_ Johnson. _and't_] Theobald. _an't_ Qq. _and it_ Steevens. [1566] _meet._] Q₆. _meete,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _meet,_ Q₅. [1567] _shall_] _will_ Q (1676). _packing:_] _packing: I'll pack him:_ Anon. conj. [1568] _good night. Indeed_] Pointed as in Ff. _good night indeed,_ Qq. [1569] _in life_] _in's life_ Q₆. _foolish_] (Q₁) Ff. _most foolish_ Qq. _foolish prating_] _foolish-prating_ S. Walker conj. [1570] [Exeunt....] Malone, after Capell. Exit. Qq. Exit Hamlet with the dead body. (Q₁). Exit Hamlet tugging in Polonius. Ff. ACT IV. SCENE I. _A room in the castle._ _Enter_ KING, QUEEN, ROSENCRANTZ, _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[1571] _King._ There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:[1572] You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them. Where is your son? _Queen._ Bestow this place on us a little while. [_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._[1573] Ah, mine own lord, what have I seen to-night![1574] 5 _King._ What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?[1575] _Queen._ Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend[1576] Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,[1577] Behind the arras hearing something stir, Whips out his rapier, cries 'a rat, a rat!'[1578] 10 And in this brainish apprehension kills[1579] The unseen good old man. _King._ O heavy deed! It had been so with us, had we been there:[1580] His liberty is full of threats to all, To you yourself, to us, to every one. 15 Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?[1581] It will be laid to us, whose providence Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt,[1582] This mad young man: but so much was our love, We would not understand what was most fit, 20 But, like the owner of a foul disease, To keep it from divulging, let it feed[1583] Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone? _Queen._ To draw apart the body he hath kill'd: O'er whom his very madness, like some ore[1584] 25 Among a mineral of metals base,[1585] Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done.[1586] _King._ O Gertrude, come away![1587] The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed[1588] 30 We must, with all our majesty and skill, Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern! _Re-enter_ ROSENCRANTZ _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[1589]