That you know aught of me:-This do you swear, So grace and mercy at your most need help you! GHOST. [Beneath.] Swear. HAM. Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! (1) So, gentle men, With all my love I do commend me to you: May do, to express his love and friending to you, Nay, come, let's go together. [Exeunt. friending to you-shall not lack] Disposition to serve you shall not be wanting. ACT II. SCENE I. A Room in Polonius's House. Enter POLONIUS and REYNOLD. POL. Give him this money, and these notes, Reynoldo. REY. I will, my lord. . POL. You shall do marvelous* wisely, good 4tos. Reynoldo, Before you visit him, to make inquiry Of his behaviour. REY. My lord, I did intend it. POL. Marry, well said: very well said." Look you, sir, Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris; What company, and what expence; and finding, a POL. And, in part, him ;-but, you may say, not well: ⚫ encompassment and drift] Winding and circuitous course. b Than your particular demands will touch it] Than such inquiry into particulars is likely to reach. marvels, 1623, 32. neere, 1632. *Then, O.C. * I. O.C. I. O. C. and so throughout the whole. But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild; REY. As gaming, my lord. POL. Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling, Drabbing:-You may go so far. REY. My lord, that would dishonour him. d You must not put another scandal on him, That he is open to incontinency; That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so That they may seem the taints of liberty: Of general assault." C Ay, my lord, Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge.] Manage it, by throwing in some qualifying ingredient. d another scandal, That he is open to, &c.] A different and a further charge; that he is a professed libertine. e Breathe his faults so quaintly-Of general assault.] Glance with an easy gaiety at his faults, as the mischiefs of too large a range, and the wildness of untamed blood, by which all youth is assailed. POL. Marry, sir, here's my drift; с Your party in converse, him you would sound, REY. Very good, my lord. POL. And then, sir, does he this,-He doesWhat was I about to say?-By the mass, I was about to say something:*-Where did I leave? REY. At, closes in the consequence. POL. At, closes in the consequence,—Ay,marry; He closes with you thus:-I know the gentleman; I saw him yesterday, or t'other day, Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you There was he gaming; there o'ertook in his rouse; I saw him enter such a house of sale, See you now; Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth: With windlaces, and with assays of bias, * fetch of warrant] Device approved. As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i'the working] As having in his commerce with the world unavoidably contracted some small blemishes. • Your party in converse] Puttenham uses much the same phrase: "The common conversant." Arte of Poesie, 4to. 1589, p. 251. with closes in this consequence] Something to this effect, falls in ⚫ nothing, 1632. By indirections find directions out; So, by my former lecture and advice,, a Shall you my son: You have me, have you not? REY. My lord, I have. POL. God be wi' you; fare you well. REY. Good my lord, POL. Observe his inclination in yourself. (5) REY. I shall, my lord. POL. And let him ply his musick. REY. Well, my lord, [Exit. Enter OPHElia. POL. Farewell!-How now, Ophelia? What's the matter? OPH. O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! POL. With what, in the name of heaven? OPH. My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac'd; No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle; Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; And with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loosed out of hell, To speak of horrors, he comes before me. (6) My lord, I do not know; What said he? OPH. He took me by the wrist, and held me hard; Then goes he to the length of all his arm; You have me] Take, conceive, me. |