Page 254 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Not that I know. [155]

POLONIUS
Take this from this if this be otherwise.
[Points to his head and shoulder.]

If circumstances lead me, I will find
Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed

Within the centre.

KING

How may we try it further?

POLONIUS
You know sometimes he walks four hours together [160]
Here in the lobby.

QUEEN
So he does indeed.

POLONIUS
At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him.

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, [165]
Let me be no assistant for a state,

But keep a farm and carters.

KING

We will try it.

Enter Hamlet, reading on a book.

QUEEN
But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.

POLONIUS