Page 255 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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Away, I do beseech you both, away.
I’ll board him presently. O give me leave. [170]
Exeunt King and Queen [and Attendants].
How does my good Lord Hamlet?
HAMLET
Well, God-a-mercy.
POLONIUS
Do you know me, my lord?
HAMLET
Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.
POLONIUS
Not I, my lord. [175]
HAMLET
Then I would you were so honest a man.
POLONIUS
Honest, my lord?
HAMLET
Ay sir. To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten
thousand.
POLONIUS
That’s very true, my lord. [180]
HAMLET
For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion −
Have you a daughter?
