Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act IV: Scene 3

Scene III. Another room in the Castle.

[Enter King,attended.]

KING.
I have sent to seek him and to find the body.
How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!
Yet must not we put the strong law on him:
He's lov'd of the distracted multitude,
Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes;
And where 'tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd,
But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,
This sudden sending him away must seem
Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.

[Enter Rosencrantz.]

How now! what hath befall'n?

ROSENCRANTZ.
Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord,
We cannot get from him.

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