Page 244 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

REYNALDO

Ay, my lord, I would know that.

POLONIUS
Marry, sir, here’s my drift,
And I believe it is a fetch of warrant.
You laying these slight sullies on my son, [40]

As ’twere a thing a little soil’d I’th’ 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 assur’d [45]
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.

POLONIUS
And then, sir, does a this − a does − what [50]
was I about to say? By the mass, I was about to say
something. Where did I leave?

REYNALDO
At ‘closes in the consequence’.

POLONIUS

At ‘closes in the consequence’, ay, marry.
He closes thus: ‘I know the gentleman, [55]
I saw him yesterday’, or ‘th’ 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
‘I saw him enter such a house of sale’ − [60]
Videlicet a brothel, or so forth.

See you now,