_Ham._ Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed;[1553] Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse; And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers, 185 Make you to ravel all this matter out,[1554] That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know; For who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise, Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,[1555] 190 Such dear concernings hide? who would do so?[1556] No, in despite of sense and secrecy, Unpeg the basket on the house's top, Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep[1557] 195 And break your own neck down. _Queen._ Be thou assured, if words be made of breath And breath of life, I have no life to breathe[1558] What thou hast said to me. _Ham._ I must to England; you know that? _Queen._ Alack,[1559][1560] 200 I had forgot: 'tis so concluded on.[1560][1561] _Ham._ There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,[1562] Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,[1562] They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way,[1562] And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;[1562][1563] 205 For 'tis the sport to have the enginer[1562][1564] Hoist with his own petar: and't shall go hard[1562][1565] But I will delve one yard below their mines,[1562] And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet[1562] When in one line two crafts directly meet.[1562][1566] 210 This man shall set me packing:[1567] I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room. Mother, good night. Indeed this counsellor[1568] Is now most still, most secret and most grave, Who was in life a foolish prating knave.[1569] 215 Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you. Good night, mother. [_Exeunt severally; Hamlet dragging in Polonius._[1570] FOOTNOTES: [1007] ACT III. SCENE I.] Q (1676) and Rowe. Omitted in Ff. A room in the castle] Malone. The Palace. Rowe. Another room in the same. Capell. Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.] Capell. Rosencraus, Guyldensterne, Lords. Qq. Rosincrance, Guildenstern, and Lords. F₁. Rosincros, Guildenstar, and Lords. F₂ F₃ F₄ (Guildenstare, F₄). [1008] _circumstance_] Ff. _conference_ Qq. [1009] _confusion_] _confesion_ Rowe (ed. 2). _confession_ Pope (in margin). [1010] _he will_] _a will_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. [1011] _Nor ... state._] Continued to Ros. by Jennens. [1012] _state_] _estate_ Q₆. [1013] _Niggard of ... of our ... Most free_] _Unapt to ... of our ... Most free_ Q (1676). _Most free of ... to our ... Niggard_ Hanmer. _Most free of ... of our ... Niggard_ Warburton. _Niggard of ... to our ... Most free_ Collier MS.