经典话剧剧本《Hamlet哈姆雷特ACT4》英文完整版(3)

　　rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the

　　king best service in the end: he keeps them, like

　　an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to

　　be last swallowed: when he needs what you have

　　gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you

　　shall be dry again.

　　ROSENCRANTZ

　　I understand you not, my lord.

　　HAMLET

　　I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a

　　foolish ear.

　　ROSENCRANTZ

　　My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go

　　with us to the king.

　　HAMLET

　　The body is with the king, but the king is not with

　　the body. The king is a thing--

　　GUILDENSTERN

　　A thing, my lord!

　　HAMLET

　　Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after.

　　Exeunt

　　SCENE III. Another room in the castle.

　　Enter KING CLAUDIUS, attended

　　KING CLAUDIUS

　　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 loved 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 relieved,

　　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.

　　KING CLAUDIUS

　　But where is he?

　　ROSENCRANTZ

　　Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure.

　　KING CLAUDIUS

　　Bring him before us.