ACT III.
Scene I. A room in the castle.
Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.[1007]
King. And can you, by no drift of circumstance,[1008]
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,[1009]
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
Ros. He does confess he feels himself distracted, 5
But from what cause he will by no means speak.[1010]
Guil. Nor do we find him forward to be sounded;[1011]
But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,[1011]
When we would bring him on to some confession[1011]
Of his true state.[1011]
Queen. Did he receive you well?[1011][1012] 10
Ros. Most like a gentleman.
Guil. But with much forcing of his disposition.
Ros. Niggard of question, but of our demands[1013]
Most free in his reply.[1013]