ly with me:
come, come; nay speake. [Sidenote: come, come,]

_Guil_. What should we say my Lord?[3]

_Ham_. Why any thing. But to the purpose;
[Sidenote: Any thing but to'th purpose:]
you were sent for; and there is a kinde confession
[Sidenote: kind of confession]
in your lookes; which your modesties haue not
craft enough to color, I know the good King and
[Sidenote: 72] Queene haue sent for you.

_Rosin_. To what end my Lord?

_Ham_. That you must teach me: but let mee
coniure[4] you by the rights of our fellowship, by
the consonancy of our youth,[5] by the Obligation
of our euer-preserued loue, and by what more
deare, a better proposer could charge you withall; [Sidenote: can]
be euen and direct with me, whether you were sent
for or no.

_Rosin_. What say you?[6]

_Ham_. Nay then I haue an eye of you[7]: if you
loue me hold not off.[8]

[Sidenote: 72] _Guil_. My Lord, we were sent for.

_Ham_. I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation
preuent your discouery of your secricie to [Sidenote: discovery, and
your secrecie to the King and Queene moult no feather,[10]]
the King and Queene[9] moult no feather, I haue
[Sidenote: 116] of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my
mirth, forgone all custome of exercise; and indeed,
[Sidenote: exercises;]
it goes so heauenly with my disposition; that this [Sidenote: heauily]
goodly frame the Earth, seemes to me a sterrill
Promontory; this most excellent Canopy the Ayre,
look you, this braue ore-hanging, this Maiesticall
[Sidenote: orehanging firmament,]
Roofe, fretted with golden fire: why, it appeares no
[Sidenote: appeareth]

[Footnote 1: --because they were by no means hearty thanks.]

[Footnote 2: He wants to know whether they are in his uncle's employment
and favour; whether they pay court to himself for his uncle's ends.]

[Footnote 3: He has no answer ready.]

[Footnote 4: He will not cast them from him without trying a direct
appeal to their old friendship for plain dealing. This must be
remembered in relation to his treatment of them afterwards. He affords
them every chance of acting truly--conjuring them to honesty--giving
them a push towards repentance.]

[Footnote 5: Either, 'the harmony of