In this particular scene, some lines of the original text are omitted, following hamlet’s statement, “the great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling ” rosencrantz: happily he’s the second time come to them; for they say an o ld man is twice a child. hamlet: i will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players; mark it — you say right, sir: o’ monday morning; ’t was so indeed. why might stoppard have intentionally eliminated these lines?