The king and queen have invited Hamlet's friends from Wittenberg University, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to Elsinore because they want them to keep an eye on Hamlet and try to figure out what has him acting so strangely. They also, of course, want those friends to inform on Hamlet to them. Claudius's motives are especially suspect, though Gertrude likely just wants to help her son feel better. Claudius tells the young men,
To draw [Hamlet] on to pleasures, and to gatherSo much as from occasion you may glean,Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thusThat, opened, lies within our remedy (2.2.15–18).
In other words, the king tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to help Hamlet have a little fun, and then, when it will not seem out of place, they should ask Hamlet what afflicts, or saddens, him. Then, they should report on those conversations to the king and queen so that they can remedy, or help to fix, whatever is ailing Hamlet. The queen even says that they will reward Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for this service.
I assume that this question is referring to Rosencratz and Guildenstern in Act II, Scene 2.
At the beginning of the scene, Claudius, speaking to Rosencratz and Guildenstern, asks them to stay in Elsinore for a time and attempt to "glean" from Hamlet whether anything "afflicts him" of which the King and Queen are unaware. The Queen notes that they are close friends of Hamlet and might be better placed than others to help him.
When he runs into them, Hamlet assumes that they "were sent for," and demands to know the reason. Initially, Rosencratz says that they have come to see Hamlet, but Hamlet is eventually able to pry out of them the truth: that the King and Queen have, in fact, asked them to come to Elsinore. However, while Hamlet thinks his friends are here to betray him, the audience knows that they are actually trying to help him, whatever their promises to Gertrude.
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