[Stage] Hamlet enters.
Hamlet(哈姆雷特)
Safely stowed.
Gentlemen(绅士们)
[from within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!
Hamlet(哈姆雷特)
But soft, what noise? Who calls on Hamlet?
Oh, here they come.
[Stage] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern enter with others.
Rosencrantz(罗森克朗兹)
What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?
Hamlet(哈姆雷特)
Compounded it with dust, whereto ’tis kin.
Rosencrantz(罗森克朗兹)
Tell us where ’tis, that we may take it thence
And bear it to the chapel.
Hamlet(哈姆雷特)
Do not believe it.
Rosencrantz(罗森克朗兹)
Believe what?
Hamlet(哈姆雷特)
That I can keep your counsel and not mine own. Besides,
to be demanded of a sponge! What replication should be
made by the son of a king?
Rosencrantz(罗森克朗兹)
Take you me for a sponge, my lord?
Hamlet(哈姆雷特)
Ay, sir, that soaks up the king’s countenance, his
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(罗森克朗兹)
I understand you not, my lord.
Hamlet(哈姆雷特)
I am glad of it. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish
ear.
Rosencrantz(罗森克朗兹)
My lord, you must tell us where the body is and go with
us to the king.
Hamlet(哈姆雷特)
The body is with the king, but the king is not with the
body.
The king is a thing—
Guildenstern(吉尔登斯登)
A thing, my lord?
Hamlet(哈姆雷特)
Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide, fox, and all after.
[Stage] They exit.