Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.
Ophelia:What means this, my lord?
Hamlet:Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.
Ophelia:Belike this show imports the argument of the play.
Enter Prologue.
Hamlet:We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot keep counsel; they’ll tell all.
Ophelia:Will he tell us what this show meant?
Hamlet:Ay, or any show that you’ll show him; be not you ashamed to show, he’ll not shame to tell you what it means.
Ophelia:You are naught, you are naught. I’ll mark the play.
What word from the excerpt suggests that Hamlet has hidden motives in showing the play?
mischief
argument
counsel
naught