In this scene King Claudius explains how the popularity of the people is the only thing that is stopping him from jailing his nephew Hamlet because the death of hamlet would make the crowd hate their King. To add on to the Kings stress he was greeted with Rosencrantz  on the understanding that Hamlet would not reveal the whereabouts of Polonius’ body. Hamlet confronts Claudius and he taunts his uncle about polonius and makes metaphors about a fisherman eats a fish that has eaten a worm that was in the grave eating at a king. Hamlet eventually sarcastically gives him the location after rambling on and while annoying Claudius.