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 If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing, And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft.

Ham. They are coming to the play; I must be idle: Get you a place.

''Danish March. A Flourish. Enter, and other Lords attendant, with the Guard, carrying torches''.

King. How fares our cousin Hamlet?

Ham. Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed; you cannot feed capons so.

King. I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words are not mine.

Ham. No, nor mine now. —[To Polonius.] My lord, you played once i' the university, you say?

Pol. That did I, my lord, and was accounted a good actor.

Ham. And what did you enact?