Claud: Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,
And drive his purpose on to these delights.
Rosenc: We shall, my lord.
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Claud: Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;
For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
That he, as 'twere by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia.
Her father and myself, lawful espials,
Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing
unseen,
We may of their encounter frankly judge,
And gather by him, as he is behaved,
If't be the affliction of his love or no
That thus he suffers for.
Gertr: I shall obey you.
Which of the following is the best
definition of espials as it appears in this
passage.
Traitors
Obedient servants
Observers
Spies