"Take thy fair hour, Laertes. Thine be thine,And thy best graces spend it at thy will. --..." This shows the Kings understanding, and even more, his courteousness in his words.

"Tis sweet and commendable in your nature,Hamlet,To give these mourning duties to your father,But you must know your father lost a father,That father lost, lost his, and the survivor boundIn filial obligation for some termTo do obsequious sorrow, But to preserverIn obstinate condolement is a courseOf impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief.It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,A heart unfortified, {a} mind impatient,An understanding simple and unschooled.For what we know must be and is as commonAs any the most vulgar thing to sense,Why should we in our peevish oppositionTake it to heart? Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven,A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,To reason most absurd, whose common themeIs death of fathers..." This quote shows that he apparently cares for Hamlet, but encourages him to forget about his father because all men loose there fathers eventually, its nature. So this shows the kings apparent love

"And can you by no drift of conferenceGet from him why he puts on this confusion,Grating so harshly all his days of quiteWith turbulent and dangerous lunacy?" Again he gives a statement that hides his actual knowledge. I believe he knows that Hamlet is disturbed because of his actions towards his father, and by stating this question it reveals to the people that are present that he does not know the reason for Hamlets behavior. This shows the kings clever words.

"Thyself do grace to them and bring them in[Polonius exits]He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath foundThe head and source of all your son's distemper." Here, I believe, is a cover-up brought on by the king with the help of Polonius. It is disillusionment to the truth that the king killed King Hamlet. It shows the trickery in the king's heart.

and Guildenstern,Moreover that we much did long to see you,The need we have to use you did provokeOur hasty sending, Something have you heardOf Hamlet's transformation, so call it,Sith nor th' exterior nor the inward manResembles that it was. What it should be,More than his father's death, that thus hath put himSo much from th' understanding of himselfI cannot dream of. I entreat you bothThat, being of so young days brought up with himAnd sith so neighbored to his youth and havior,That you vouchsafe your rest here in our courtSome little time, so by your companiesTo draw him on to pleasures, and to gatherSo much as from occasion you may glean,[Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus]That, opened, lied within our remedy." This quote sta

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