He visited once before, and found it primarily dull—he is not one to care about noble disdain for his spectacles and ink-stained fingers, but he sees nothing of interest in the pomp and circumstance of the court—and then after that visit he only heard of it through Hamlet’s complaints, from which, he gathered, it had only gotten worse; and he has research to do, a borrowed text just arrived, an article to review.
But Elsinore is where Hamlet is, and Hamlet has sent for him, so he goes.
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He visited once before, and found it primarily dull—he is not one to care about noble disdain for his spectacles and ink-stained fingers, but he sees nothing of interest in the pomp and circumstance of the court—and then after that visit he only heard of it through Hamlet’s complaints, from which, he gathered, it had only gotten worse; and he has research to do, a borrowed text just arrived, an article to review.
But Elsinore is where Hamlet is, and Hamlet has sent for him, so he goes.