Hamlet: Act 2 Scene 1
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1 | A room in POLONIUS' house. | *Kelkuvi mì kelku POLONYUSÌyä. | |
Enter POLONIUS and REYNALDO | Fpxäkìm POLONYUSÌ sì REYNALTO | ||
LORD POLONIUS | Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo. | Poan tìng fì'[money] sì fayupxare, Reynaldo | |
REYNALDO | I will, my lord. | Oe sayi fìkem, ma oeyä 'eyktan. | |
5 | LORD POLONIUS | You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo, | Nga sayi nìtxantslusam txan, sìltsana Reynaldo, |
Before you visit him, to make inquire | ngal eo tse'a poanìt, pawm poanur | ||
Of his behavior. | poanä ayhemteri. | ||
REYNALDO | My lord, I did intend it. | Ma oeyä 'eyktan, oe nivew sivi fìkem. | |
LORD POLONIUS | Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir, | Fpi Eywa, nìltsan pìmllte; nìtxan nìltsan pìmllte. Tìng nari, ma tutean, | |
10 | Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris; | ngal pawm oeti 'awve peu Danskers tok mì Pari; | |
And how, and who, what means, and where they keep, | ulte peyfa, ulte pesu, peyfa ayfo tsun lu, ulte peseng ayfo keltu si, | ||
What company, at what expense; and finding | peu aysmuk, peu [expense]; ulte | ||
By this encompassment and drift of question | |||
That they do know my son, come you more nearer | |||
15 | Than your particular demands will touch it: | ||
Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him; | |||
As thus, 'I know his father and his friends, | |||
And in part him: ' do you mark this, Reynaldo? | |||
REYNALDO | Ay, very well, my lord. | ||
20 | LORD POLONIUS | 'And in part him; but' you may say 'not well: | |
But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild; | |||
Addicted so and so:' and there put on him | |||
What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank | |||
As may dishonour him; take heed of that; | |||
25 | But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips | ||
As are companions noted and most known | |||
To youth and liberty. | |||
REYNALDO | As gaming, my lord. | ||
LORD POLONIUS | Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling, | ||
30 | Drabbing: you may go so far. | ||
REYNALDO | My lord, that would dishonour him. | ||
LORD POLONIUS | 'Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge | ||
You must not put another scandal on him, | |||
That he is open to incontinency; | |||
35 | That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly | ||
That they may seem the taints of liberty, | |||
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, | |||
A savageness in unreclaimed blood, | |||
Of general assault. | |||
40 | REYNALDO | But, my good lord,-- | |
LORD POLONIUS | Wherefore should you do this? | ||
REYNALDO | Ay, my lord, | ||
I would know that. | |||
LORD POLONIUS | Marry, sir, here's my drift; | ||
45 | And I believe, it is a fetch of wit: | ||
You laying these slight sullies on my son, | |||
As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you, | |||
Your party in converse, him you would sound, | |||
Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes | |||
50 | The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured | ||
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. | |||
55 | REYNALDO | Very good, my lord. | |
LORD POLONIUS | And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I | ||
about to say? By the mass, I was about to say | |||
something: where did I leave? | |||
REYNALDO | At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,' and 'gentleman.' | ||
60 | LORD POLONIUS | At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry; | |
He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman; | |||
I saw him yesterday, or t' other day, | |||
Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you say, | |||
There was a' gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse; | |||
65 | There falling out at tennis:' or perchance, | ||
'I saw him enter such a house of sale,' | |||
Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. | |||
See you now; | |||
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth: | |||
70 | And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, | ||
With windlasses and with assays of bias, | |||
By indirections find directions out: | |||
So by my former lecture and advice, | |||
Shall you my son. You have me, have you not? | |||
75 | REYNALDO | My lord, I have. | |
LORD POLONIUS | God be wi' you; fare you well. | ||
REYNALDO | Good my lord! | ||
LORD POLONIUS | Observe his inclination in yourself. | ||
REYNALDO | I shall, my lord. | ||
80 | LORD POLONIUS | And let him ply his music. | |
REYNALDO | Well, my lord. | ||
LORD POLONIUS | Farewell! | ||
Exit REYNALDO | REYNALTO hum | ||
Enter OPHELIA | Fpxäkìm OFELYA | ||
85 | LORD POLONIUS | How now, Ophelia! what's the matter? | |
OPHELIA | O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! | ||
LORD POLONIUS | With what, i' the name of God? | ||
OPHELIA | My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, | ||
Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; | |||
90 | No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, | ||
Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle; | |||
Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; | |||
And with a look so piteous in purport | |||
As if he had been loosed out of hell | |||
95 | To speak of horrors,--he comes before me. | ||
LORD POLONIUS | Mad for thy love? | ||
OPHELIA | My lord, I do not know; | ||
But truly, I do fear it. | |||
LORD POLONIUS | What said he? | ||
100 | OPHELIA | He took me by the wrist and held me hard; | |
Then goes he to the length of all his arm; | |||
And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, | |||
He falls to such perusal of my face | |||
As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so; | |||
105 | At last, a little shaking of mine arm | ||
And thrice his head thus waving up and down, | |||
He raised a sigh so piteous and profound | |||
As it did seem to shatter all his bulk | |||
And end his being: that done, he lets me go: | |||
110 | And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd, | ||
He seem'd to find his way without his eyes; | |||
For out o' doors he went without their helps, | |||
And, to the last, bended their light on me. | |||
LORD POLONIUS | Come, go with me: I will go seek the king. | ||
115 | This is the very ecstasy of love, | ||
Whose violent property fordoes itself | |||
And leads the will to desperate undertakings | |||
As oft as any passion under heaven | |||
That does afflict our natures. I am sorry. | |||
120 | What, have you given him any hard words of late? | ||
OPHELIA | No, my good lord, but, as you did command, | ||
I did repel his fetters and denied | |||
His access to me. | |||
LORD POLONIUS | That hath made him mad. | ||
125 | I am sorry that with better heed and judgment | ||
I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle, | |||
And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy! | |||
By heaven, it is as proper to our age | |||
To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions | |||
130 | As it is common for the younger sort | ||
To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king: | |||
This must be known; which, being kept close, might move | |||
More grief to hide than hate to utter love. | |||
135 | Exeunt |
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