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Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers,
For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly,
In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment, 85
Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts:
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France, 88
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death;
Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd, 92
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude! this,
Like to a murdering-piece, in many places
Gives me superfluous death. A noise within.
Queen. Alack! what noise is this?
Enter a Messenger.
King. Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door. 97
What is the matter?
Mess. Save yourself, my lord;
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, 101
O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord;
And, as the world were now but to begin,
83 greenly: foolishly
84 In hugger-mugger: secretly
89 wonder: doubt
in clouds: in gloom, or, invisible
90 buzzers: tale-bearers
92 Wherein: i.e., in which pestilent speeches
93 nothing stick: not at all hesitate
94 In ear and ear: in many ears
95 murdering-piece: small cannon firing case shot
97 Switzers: Swiss guards; cf. n.
99 overpeering: rising above
list: boundary
101 head: hostile advance