... mercy/ But to confront the visage of offense?/ And that^s in prayer but his twofold force,/ to be forestalled are we come to fall,/ Or pardoned being down?^ He then answers his own question by saying, ^But, O, what form of prayer/ can serve my turn? ^Forgive me my foul murder?^/ That cannot be, since I am still possessed/ of those efforts for ... ...

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... is so completely in the dark that he does not even know who to question. He talks about "they" and "them"--mysterious, unknown figures that, he assumes, have all the answers but just aren't giving them up. Rosencrantz starts out much more at ease with the direction of his fate. He isn't so disturbed about the seeming absurdity and randomness of ... ...

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