and whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Fan understanding, but no tongue; will requite your loves: so, fare you well: or the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve, I visit you. Our duty to your honor. Ham. Your loves, as mine to you. Farewell. [Exeunt Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo. ay father's spirit in arms! all is not well; odt some foul play: would, the night were come! I then, sit still, my soul! Foul deeds will rise, hough all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. SCENE III. [Exit. A room in Polonius's house. Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA. Laer. My necessaries are embark'd; farewell. Oph. Do you doubt that? Laer. For Hamlet, and the trifling of his tavor, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Oph. No more but so? Laer. Think it no more; For nature, crescent,' does not grow alone In thews and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, Carve for himself; for on his choice depends you, It fits your wisdom so far to believe it, As he in his particular act and place May give his saying deed; which is no farther, Or lose your heart; or your chaste treasure open Fear it, Ophelia; fear it, my dear sister; Increasing. 3 Subtlety, deceit. 2 Muscular strength 4 Discolor. Out of the shot and danger of desire. Oph. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep As watchman to my heart: but, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Laer. O, fear me not. I stay too long; but here my father comes. Enter POLONIUS. A double blessing is a double grace; Occasion smiles upon a second leave. Po. Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame : The wind sits ir. the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with [iaying his hand on Laertes's head. you; Most cautious. 2 Heeds not his own lessons. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character.1 Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act: Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar: Bear it, that the opposed may beware of thee: ment: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man; And they in France, of the best rank and station. For loan oft loses both itself and friend; Inscribe 2 • Opinion. 3 Note, estimation. Po. The time invites you: go; your servants tend. Laer. Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well What I have said to you. Oph. 'Tis in my memory lock'd, [Exit Laertes. And you yourself shall keep the key of it. Laer. Farewell. Po. What is 't, Ophelia, he hath said to you? Oph. So please you, something touching the lord Hamlet. Po. Marry, well bethought: 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late Given private time to you; and you yourself Have of your audience been most free and bounteous: And that in way of caution) I must tell you, Of his affection to me. Po. Affection? puh! you speak like a green girl, Unsifted1 in such perilous circumstance. Do you believe his tenders, as you call them ? Oph. I do not know, my lord, what I should think. ■ Inexperienced. |