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Act I, Scene 3.

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Elsinore. A room in the house of Polonius.

Enter Laertes and Ophelia.

Laertes. My necessaries are embark'd. Farewell.


And, sister, as the winds give benefit


And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,


But let me hear from you. 485

Ophelia. Do you doubt that?

Laertes. For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,


Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood;


A violet in the youth of primy nature,


Forward, not permanent- sweet, not lasting; 490


The perfume and suppliance of a minute;


No more.

Ophelia. No more but so?

Laertes. Think it no more.


For nature crescent does not grow alone 495


In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes,


The inward service of the mind and soul


Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,


And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch


The virtue of his will; but you must fear, 500


His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;


For he himself is subject to his birth.


He may not, as unvalued persons do,


Carve for himself, for on his choice depends


The safety and health of this whole state, 505


And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd


Unto the voice and yielding of that body


Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,


It fits your wisdom so far to believe it


As he in his particular act and place 510


May give his saying deed; which is no further


Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.


Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain


If with too credent ear you list his songs,


Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open 515


To his unmast'red importunity.


Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,


And keep you in the rear of your affection,


Out of the shot and danger of desire.


The chariest maid is prodigal enough 520


If she unmask her beauty to the moon.


Virtue itself scopes not calumnious strokes.


The canker galls the infants of the spring


Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd,


And in the morn and liquid dew of youth 525


Contagious blastments are most imminent.


Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.


Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

Ophelia. I shall th' effect of this good lesson keep


As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, 530


Do not as some ungracious pastors do,


Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,


Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,


Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads


And recks not his own rede. 535

Laertes. O, fear me not!


[Enter Polonius. ]


I stay too long. But here my father comes.


A double blessing is a double grace;


Occasion smiles upon a second leave. 540

Polonius. Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame!


The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,


And you are stay'd for. There- my blessing with thee!


And these few precepts in thy memory


Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, 545


Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.


Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar:


Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,


Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;


But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 550


Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware


Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,


Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee.


Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;


Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. 555


Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,


But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;


For the apparel oft proclaims the man,


And they in France of the best rank and station


Are most select and generous, chief in that. 560


Neither a borrower nor a lender be;


For loan oft loses both itself and friend,


And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.


This above all- to thine own self be true,


And it must follow, as the night the day, 565


Thou canst not then be false to any man.


Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!

Laertes. Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.

Polonius. The time invites you. Go, your servants tend.

Laertes. Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well 570


What I have said to you.

Ophelia. 'Tis in my memory lock'd,


And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

Laertes. Farewell. Exit.

Polonius. What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you? 575

Ophelia. So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.

Polonius. Marry, well bethought!


'Tis told me he hath very oft of late


Given private time to you, and you yourself


Have of your audience been most free and bounteous. 580


If it be so- as so 'tis put on me,


And that in way of caution- I must tell you


You do not understand yourself so clearly


As it behooves my daughter and your honour.


What is between you? Give me up the truth. 585

Ophelia. He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders


Of his affection to me.

Polonius. Affection? Pooh! You speak like a green girl,


Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.


Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? 590

Ophelia. I do not know, my lord, what I should think,

Polonius. Marry, I will teach you! Think yourself a baby


That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,


Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly,


Or (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, 595


Running it thus) you'll tender me a fool.

Ophelia. My lord, he hath importun'd me with love


In honourable fashion.

Polonius. Ay, fashion you may call it. Go to, go to!

Ophelia. And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, 600


With almost all the holy vows of heaven.

Polonius. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks! I do know,


When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul


Lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter,


Giving more light than heat, extinct in both 605


Even in their promise, as it is a-making,


You must not take for fire. From this time


Be something scanter of your maiden presence.


Set your entreatments at a higher rate


Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet, 610


Believe so much in him, that he is young,


And with a larger tether may he walk


Than may be given you. In few, Ophelia,


Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,


Not of that dye which their investments show, 615


But mere implorators of unholy suits,


Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,


The better to beguile. This is for all:


I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth


Have you so slander any moment leisure 620


As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.


Look to't, I charge you. Come your ways.

Ophelia. I shall obey, my lord.

Exeunt.


Hamlet

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