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 * In hot obedience to the Royal 'hest

We have arrived, prepared to do our best.
 * Q. We welcome you to Court. Our chamberlain

Shall see that you are suitably disposed. Here is his daughter. She will hear your will And see that it receives fair countenance.

Ophelia!
 * (delighted and surprised). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!

This meeting likes me much. We have not met Since we were babes.
 * The queen has summoned us,

And I have come in a half-hearted hope That I may claim once more my baby-love!
 * Alas, I am betrothed!
 * Betrothed? To whom?
 * To Hamlet!
 * Oh, incomprehensible.

Thou lovest Hamlet!
 * Nay, I said not so—

I said we were betrothed.
 * And what's he like?
 * Alike for no two seasons at a time.

Sometimes he's tall—sometimes he's very short— Now with black hair—now with a flaxen wig—