Ros. } [Within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet![1597]
Guil.}

Ham. But soft, what noise? who calls on Hamlet?[1598]
O, here they come.

Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[1599]

Ros. What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? 5

Ham. Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.[1600]

Ros. Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence
And bear it to the chapel.

Ham. Do not believe it.

Ros. Believe what? 10

Ham. That I can keep your counsel and not mine
own. Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what replication[1601]
should be made by the son of a king?

Ros. Take you me for a sponge, my lord?