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hamlet: i must to england; you know that?
gertrude: alack!
i had forgot: tis so concluded on.
hamlet: theres letters seald, and my two schoolfellows,
whom i will trust as i will adders fangd, (225)
they bear the mandate, they must sweep my way,
and marshal me to knavery. let it work,
for tis the sport to have the engineer,
hoist with his own petar; and it shall go hard
but i will delve one yard below their mines, (230)
and blow them at the moon. o! tis most sweet,
when in one line two crafts directly meet.
this man shall set me packing;
ill lug the guts into the neighbour room.
mother, good-night. indeed this counsellor (235)
is now most still, most secret, and most grave,
who was in life a foolish prating knave.
come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.
good-night, mother. exeunt severally; hamlet dragging in the body of polonius.
how does hamlet feel about his friends rosencrantz and guildenstern?
he trusts them. he is suspicious of them. he is worried about them. he is jealous of them.
In the text, Hamlet says "Whom I will trust as I will adders fang’d" (comparing trusting them to trusting venomous snakes) and mentions they "bear the mandate" to lead him to "knavery", showing he doubts their intentions and is suspicious.
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He is suspicious of them.