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