Hamlet - Page 48

men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their

eyes purging thick amber or plum-tree gum207 and that they

have a plentiful lack of wit, together with weak hams208: all

which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet

I hold it not honesty210 to have it thus set down, for you

yourself, sir, should be old211 as I am, if like a crab you could go

backward.

Aside

POLONIUS Though this be madness, yet there is

method in't.-- Will you walk out of the air, my lord?

HAMLET Into my grave?

Aside

POLONIUS Indeed, that is out o'th'air.--

How pregnant sometimes his replies are! A happiness217 that

often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so

prosperously be delivered of. I will leave him and suddenly219

contrive the means of meeting between him and my

daughter.-- My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my

leave of you.

HAMLET You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will

more willingly part withal224: except my life, my life.

POLONIUS Fare you well, my lord.

HAMLET These tedious old fools.

Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

POLONIUS You go to seek my lord Hamlet; there he is.

ROSENCRANTZ God save you, sir!

To Polonius

GUILDENSTERN Mine honoured lord!

[Exit Polonius]

ROSENCRANTZ My most dear lord!

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