Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act III: Scene 4

Scene IV. Another room in the castle.

[Enter Queen and Polonius.]

POLONIUS.
He will come straight. Look you lay home to him:
Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,
And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between
Much heat and him. I'll silence me e'en here.
Pray you, be round with him.

HAMLET.
[Within.] Mother, mother, mother!

QUEEN.
I'll warrant you:
Fear me not: — withdraw; I hear him coming.

[Polonius goes behind the arras.]

[Enter Hamlet.]

HAMLET.
Now, mother, what's the matter?

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