_Ham._ Bid the players make haste. [_Exit Polonius._[1159] Will you two help to hasten them? 45 _Ros. Guil._ We will, my lord. [_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._[1160] _Ham._ What ho! Horatio! _Enter_ HORATIO.[1161] _Hor._ Here, sweet lord, at your service.[1162] _Ham._ Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal.[1163] 50 _Hor._ O, my dear lord,--[1164] _Ham._ Nay, do not think I flatter; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits,[1165] To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?[1166] No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,[1167] 55 And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee[1168] Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?[1169] Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,[1170] And could of men distinguish, her election[1171] Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been[1171] 60 As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing; A man that fortune's buffets and rewards[1172] Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those[1173] Whose blood and judgement are so well commingled[1174] That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger 65 To sound what stop she please. Give me that man[1175] That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,[1176] As I do thee. Something too much of this. There is a play to-night before the king; 70 One scene of it comes near the circumstance Which I have told thee of my father's death:[1177] I prithee, when thou seest that act a-foot,[1178] Even with the very comment of thy soul[1179] Observe my uncle: if his occulted guilt[1180] 75 Do not itself unkennel in one speech,[1181] It is a damned ghost that we have seen, And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note;[1182] For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,[1183] 80 And after we will both our judgements join[1184] In censure of his seeming.[1185] _Hor._ Well, my lord: If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,[1186] And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft.[1187] _Ham._ They are coming to the play: I must be idle:[1188] 85 Get you a place. _Danish march. A flourish. Enter_ KING, QUEEN, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, _and other Lords attendant, with the Guard carrying torches_.[1189] _King._ How fares our cousin Hamlet?[1190] _Ham._ Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat[1191][1192] the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.[1191]