Unit 30: Why This Reunion Flashcards
ROSENCRANTZ: My most dear lord.
My excellent good friends.
My excellent good friends.
How dost thou, Guildenstern?
How dost thou, Goldenstern?
Ah, Rosencrantz!
Ah, Rosencrantz!
Good lads,
Good lads,
how do you both?
GUILDENSTERN: On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.
Nor the soles of her shoes.
ROSENCRANTZ: Neither, my lord.
Then you live about her waist,
Then you live about her waist,
or in the middle of her favours.
GUILDENSTERN: Faith, her privates we.
In the secret parts of Fortune?
In the secret parts of Fortune?
O, most true-
O, most true-
she is a strumpet.
she is a strumpet.
What news?
ROSENCRANTZ: None, my lord, but the world’s grown honest.
Then is doomsday near-
Then is doomsday near-
but your news is not true.
But your news is not true.
But,
But,
in the beaten way of friendship
in the beaten way of friendship,
what make you at Elsinore?
Were you not sent for?
Is it your own inclining?
Is it your own inclining?
Is it a free visitation?
Come, come,
deal justly with me. Come, come,
deal justly with me. Come, come,
nay speak.
GUILDENSTERN: What should we say, my lord?
Anything but to th’ unpurpose.
Anything but to th’ unpurpose.
You were sent for,
You were sent for,
and there is a kind of confession in your looks,
and there is a kind of confession in your looks,
which your modesties have not craft enough to colour.
which your modesties have not craft enough to colour.
I know the good King and Queen have sent for you.
ROSENCRANTZ: To what end, my lord?
That you must teach me.
That you must teach me.
Be even and direct with me
Be even and direct with me
whether you were sent for or no
ROSENCRANTZ: What say you?
Nay then,
Nay then,
I have an eye of you.