Page 361 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

really.

HAMLET
What imports the nomination of this gentleman?

OSRIC
Of Laertes?

HORATIO
His purse is empty already, all’s golden words are spent. [130]

HAMLET
Of him, sir.

OSRIC
I know you are not ignorant −

HAMLET
I would you did, sir. Yet in faith if you did, it would not much approve me.

Well, sir?

OSRIC
You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is − [135]

HAMLET
I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence; but to
know a man well were to know himself.

OSRIC
I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation laid on him, by them in his

meed, he’s unfellowed. [140]

HAMLET

What’s his weapon?

OSRIC