Page 360 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion.

OSRIC
Exceedingly, my lord, it is very sultry − as ’twere − I cannot tell how. My lord,
his Majesty [100] bade me signify to you that a has laid a great wager on
your head. Sir, this is the matter −

HAMLET
[signing to him to put on his hat] I beseech you remember −

OSRIC
Nay, good my lord, for my ease, in good faith. [105] Sir, here is newly come

to court Laertes − believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent
differences, of very soft society and great showing. Indeed, to speak feelingly
of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry; for you shall find in him the [110]

continent of what part a gentleman would see.

HAMLET

Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you, though I know to divide him
inventorially would dozy th’arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in
respect of his quick sail. But, in the verity [115] of extolment, I take him to
be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to

make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror and who else would
trace him his umbrage, nothing more. [120]

OSRIC
Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.

HAMLET
The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap thegentleman in our more rawer
breath?

OSRIC

Sir?

HORATIO

Is’t not possible to understand in another [125] tongue? You will to’t, sir,