Be you and I behind an arras then;

　　Mark the encounter: if he love her not

　　And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,

　　Let me be no assistant for a state,

　　But keep a farm and carters.

　　KING CLAUDIUS

　　We will try it.

　　QUEEN GERTRUDE

　　But, look, where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　Away, I do beseech you, both away:

　　I'll board him presently.

　　Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, and Attendants

　　Enter HAMLET, reading

　　O, give me leave:

　　How does my good Lord Hamlet?

　　HAMLET

　　Well, God-a-mercy.

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　Do you know me, my lord?

　　HAMLET

　　Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　Not I, my lord.

　　HAMLET

　　Then I would you were so honest a man.

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　Honest, my lord!

　　HAMLET

　　Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be

　　one man picked out of ten thousand.

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　That's very true, my lord.

　　HAMLET

　　For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a

　　god kissing carrion,--Have you a daughter?

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　I have, my lord.

　　HAMLET

　　Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a

　　blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive.

　　Friend, look to 't.