LORD POLONIUS

　　'Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge

　　You must not put another scandal on him,

　　That he is open to incontinency;

　　That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly

　　That they may seem the taints of liberty,

　　The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,

　　A savageness in unreclaimed blood,

　　Of general assault.

　　REYNALDO

　　But, my good lord,--

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　Wherefore should you do this?

　　REYNALDO

　　Ay, my lord,

　　I would know that.

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　Marry, sir, here's my drift;

　　And I believe, it is a fetch of wit:

　　You laying these slight sullies on my son,

　　As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you,

　　Your party in converse, him you would sound,

　　Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes

　　The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured

　　He closes with you in this consequence;

　　'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,'

　　According to the phrase or the addition

　　Of man and country.

　　REYNALDO

　　Very good, my lord.

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I

　　about to say? By the mass, I was about to say

　　something: where did I leave?

　　REYNALDO

　　At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,'

　　and 'gentleman.'

　　LORD POLONIUS

　　At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry;

　　He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman;

　　I saw him yesterday, or t' other day,

　　Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you say,

　　There was a' gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse;

　　There falling out at tennis:' or perchance,